Matthias Bläsing wrote:
> This is suggestion how to get rid of the JARs:
> 
> https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3162
> 
> Before anyone says it: Yes there are other elephants (zip like files)
> in the repository, but these are not the current discussion topic.

Great, Matthias. Generating binary files during the test run is usually better 
than having them directly in the repository.


> Am Samstag, dem 11.09.2021 um 19:10 +0100 schrieb Neil C Smith:
> > > I'll see if I can remove them all all, but for 12.5 IMHO this is out of
> > > scope and also unnessary.

I haven't realized how important a dummy JAR in the repository can be until I 
saw Laszlo's +0 vote and subsequent discussion.

> > It's unnecessary anyway, except possibly on the point that was made on
> > legal-disuss about harder to review, and that's minor.  And probably
> > pointless unless we decided to address all the other archive formats?
> 
> while I mostly agree, I notice that discussions in the Apache legal
> area have the tendency to end somewhere in gray land and don't get
> resolved. Either we have to accept, that JARs needed for tests are a
> reality, then lets stop the nonsense to explicitly name them or we need
> to work on removing them.

To prevent similar panic next time, can we create a test that fails the build? 
It is ridiculous to rely on humans to check something as technical manually.

The [line endings test](https://app.travis-ci.com/github/apache/netbeans/jobs/
536940454) or the [libs and licenses test](https://app.travis-ci.com/github/
apache/netbeans/jobs/536940455) would be particularly suited to prevent 
additions of new JAR files.

-jt




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