Re: HttpUnit-Crawl project

Dear Morgan,

> What exactly is going on with httpunit these days? Is development being

> revived? I had dismissed it as abandoned long ago but I'm nevertheless

> glad to see such a great framework still has life in it.

Russell is as active as he can be. A few month ago I got committer

rights which I'm actively using now for a few weeks. Tim Diggins has

also offered to work on the project. We'd appreciate if more people would

get involved. A release that includes the patches from sourceforge that
have been supplied in the 2005-2007 period is due soon.

The project is alive and kicking in a way that at least we can make sure

that people that have been using httpunit for many years now will still

find a version that is up-to-date and a mailingliste where quite a few
people are asking questions and get responses. We are certaintly not the
quickest in the universe but do what we can given the limited resources we
have.

I did not look at your patches yet. For a patch to go into httpunit it's
mandatory to have a test case that tests the changes intended by the patch.

In some cases I've started to add in some case to add patch-code with out
test cases nevertheless usually commenting it out or marking it deprecated
to make sure the rest of the code ist not harmed. But that's only in cases
where I can't get in touch with the original authors any more. In your case
I'd appreciate if you'd have a look at the latest svn trunk revision and
let me know wheter your patches still make sense in this context.

Thank you!

Yours

Wolfgang

Subject: Re: HttpUnit-Crawl project

From: Morgan Christiansson <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Copies to: arachnid <[email protected]>

Date sent: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:18:29 +0100

> Hi Wolfgang,

>

> Actually you replied to my e-mail announcing the fork on httpunit-devel

> back in 2005.

>

> Anyway neither of us are working at the SEO company and we haven't done

> any work on httpunit since.

>

>

> There isn't really any groundbreaking work done. Mostly fixes to

> increasing compatibility with various websites so that httpunit could be

> used for scraping and crawling. Nevertheless, all of them are useful for

> processing various websites from what i remember.

>

> It should be fairly simple to extract patches from sourceforge's CVS and

> see exactly can be applied.

>

>

> What exactly is going on with httpunit these days? Is development being

> revived? I had dismissed it as abandoned long ago but I'm nevertheless

> glad to see such a great framework still has life in it.

>

> Regards,

> Morgan

>

> lör 2007-12-29 klockan 14:38 +0100 skrev Wolfgang Fahl:

> > Daniel Eliasson and Morgan Christiansson,

> >

> >

> > while searching for httpunit on SourceForge I found your

> > http-unit crawl project.

> >

> >

> > The comment for it is:

> > "httpunit-crawl is a fork of httpunit (hosted here on

> > sourceforge), with the goal of being able to be used to

> > process broken websites that the original httpunit

> > cannot handle. Our hope is that httpunit will

> > reintegrate our fixes back into their cvs."

> >

> >

> > Russell recently assigned me the committer rights for

> > the httpunit svn repository.

> >

> >

> > Would you please contact me regarding the state of your

> > work - I'm tentatively considering to do what you are

> > asking for in your project comment.

> >

> >

> > Yours

> >

> >

> > Wolfgang

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

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