they are fine. if they pass for plexus, then they are in the tck

- Stephen

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On 24 May 2011 18:53, "Brian Demers" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not exactly clean room, but I have a feeling a lot of test cases could be
> copied from the given commons-* projects such as:
>
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtilsTestCase.java?view=markup
>
> This should work for methods with the same signatures. (it would help with
> the coverage anyway)
>
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Kristian Rosenvold <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Hey if we could just copy the plexus source code in tree we wouldn't
>> > be doing this would we? If you have the provenance of the code and it
>> > is ASL license friendly, then fine copy & paste.
>> >
>>
>> That'd really be depending on the overall usage of a shim layer,
>> wouldn't it ? I think a shim makes sense for the stuff mentioned in
>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/PLXUTILS-21 other than that I think it
>> makes sense to rework the dependencies or keep them as-is. Plexus-utils
>> is a bit of a flea market functionality wise and some of it may be
>> totally unused for all I know.
>>
>> But if the intention of the shim is to ensure/validate compatibility it
>> will often just delegate directly to another method. So if I was
>> upgrading to the shim I'd almost certainly inline the method invocations
>> so I'd just be left with clean dependencies on the real implementations.
>> So in this respect I could just use the shim as a transitional measure.
>>
>>
>> Kristian
>>
>>
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