It wasn’t bit rot that was breaking my Batik tests. It was maven. I emerged to the latest version of maven, and dutifully upgraded the various plugins, and all my Batik tests were failing. I even tried upping the version of junit, etc., to no avail. But when I finally figured out how to test in Eclipse (just press the run button, who knew that meant test as well?), the tests passed. I’d file a bug with Maven, but I haven’t a clue how to reproduce the bug in a simple way.
March 23, 2007
Driving a Chrysler
Seems like the Chrysler part of DCX is finally revving its engine. Funny how nothing changed except rumors of buyouts and spin-offs, and the stock pops. The company itself, its products and workers, are all the same. Why does the market think that getting it out from under Daimler will help the company, especially when Daimler has invested so much time and effort trying to merge the two companies. Perhaps that is it, the market is saying that the merger isn’t happening, and more investing to make it happen is a bad idea, while *cutting and running* (stupid republicans) is a good idea.
