Eclipse dependency problem...

Hi Jim,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Jim Powers wrote:
> Now, the twist: Project A's TESTING code depends on B.  So, the question is:
> can I create an Eclipse project dependency that will only be applied to the
> test-code.

No. Also see:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=224708

Best,
Ismael

Am 7/25/2011 5:49 PM, schrieb Jim Powers:
> Using the Scala IDE plugin for Eclipse (beta09, I like the
> double-digits in the betas ;-) ), and I have a question about
> "project" dependencies (I don't think this question is strictly
> limited to Scala-based projects). I have a project structure that
> kind of looks like this:
>
> Project A
> Project B depends on A
>
> Now, the twist: Project A's TESTING code depends on B. So, the
> question is: can I create an Eclipse project dependency that will only
> be applied to the test-code. Placing a dependency on B in A causes a
> circular dependency (obviously), but the circularity is broken if the
> dependency is only applied for testing purposes.
>
> As of now I'm assuming the answer is "no, I can't do this", and I
> should just create a jar and depend on that.
>
What we're doing in Akka is that akka-testkit depends on akka-actor and
akka-actor-tests depends on both, i.e. move the tests from A into a
separate package A'.

Regards,

Roland