Re: [epsilon-dev] Proposal to remove easymock 3.1, nodep 2.1.3 and objen

[Dimitris Kolovos <dimitris.kolovos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry - yes, by archive I meant delete.

Thanks,
Dimitris

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 15:02, Sina Madani <sinadoom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> To be clear, does “archive” mean “delete”? Or is there a procedure for dealing with this? Perhaps moving it to the “legacy” folder if we decide not to delete that as well. Presumably if there haven’t been any changes made to Concordance since 1.5, there’d be no harm in deleting it, since we still have the source code, JARs, plugins, features etc. from previous versions.
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> From: Dimitris Kolovos
> Sent: 13 April 2020 13:24
> To: Sina Madani
> Cc: Epislon Project developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [epsilon-dev] Proposal to remove easymock 3.1, nodep 2.1.3 and objenesis 1.0
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> Hi Sina,
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> As there haven't been any responses re Concordance over the last
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> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 19:11, Sina Madani <sinadoom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Thank you for your input on this. I have now deleted these libraries. There were two versions of EasyMock: 2.4 and 3.1. It is 3.1 which was unused. I can confirm all tests are passing and mvn clean install working when deleting these three projects.
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> > I’m not familiar with Concordance or Hawk so I can’t help on that front. My initial reaction was that perhaps we could request to move Concordance to the Hawk project (if there is still interest in maintaining it) but I presume it’s not trivial to do from a maintenance and administrative / Eclipse paperwork perspective.
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> > Hi Sina,
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> > Many thanks for your continued efforts on tidying up Epsilon!
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> > Having said that, interestingly, it turns out that our collaborator's
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> > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=561608
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> > [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518364
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> > [3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518363
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