Request: New Maven release for Junit dependency scope change

[Macil]

A commit 5 years ago (7ae9400#diff-600376dffeb79835ede4a0b285078036) fixed it so that json-simple only depends on Junit in the test scope, but there have been no releases since that fix. Could a new release be made at least for that?

I frequently work on projects that don't use Junit 4.10 but depend on libraries that depend on json-simple which then pulls in Junit 4.10, and then IDEs annoyingly auto-suggest Junit 4.10 annotations whenever we write tests even if we use a different test system. It's easy to pick a Junit 4.10 @Test annotation instead of our own test system's annotation and accidentally make a test that never runs without realizing it. It's a little silly issue since projects can be configured to exclude the Junit subdependency, but I see a lot of projects fail to do that, and the fix for them all has been sitting unused and ready for 5 years. I don't think you should worry that the scope change fix is too small for a release: it's better to have it out eventually, and there's no shortage of possible version numbers.

[oscerd]

I think a release is needed, just for leaving a definitive released without junit as runtime dep

[chkpnt]

+1

[rcrlik]

+1

Any update on this?

[Lonzak]

+1 Please release a new version.
(or reflect the project status and set it to archive / not maintained anymore)