John Patrick

@PirolA interesting idea, as some previous comments have highlights it would mean hamcrest being a non compile dependency. maybe looking at how `spotbugsfindbugs` have `spotbugs-annotations/findbugs-annotations`, where we could support something...

Going to try and kick start hamcrest, so if you want to get it merged, please rebase from the branch `v2.3-candidates`. Still trying to understand how has permissions to perform...

Going to try and kick start hamcrest, so if you want to get it merged, please rebase from the branch `v2.3-candidates`. Still trying to understand how has permissions to perform...

Yes the classes do appear to be duplicates and cover very similar functionaility; `org.hamcrest.Matchers.matchesRegex(String)` basically calls out to `org.hamcrest.core.StringRegularExpression` `org.hamcrest.core.StringRegularExpression` `org.hamcrest.text.MatchesPattern`

@Gnurfos think i understand the issue so should probably be merged. please can you rebase from master, as `hamcrest-core` and `hamcrest-library` have been refactored a lot and also deprecated, so...

Going to try and kick start hamcrest, so if you want to get it merged, please rebase from the branch `v2.3-candidates`. Still trying to understand how has permissions to perform...

What about starting multiple parallel branches per java version. Then merge into the correct branch and forward and fix as required. v2.x Java 7 or newer v3.x Java 8 or...

I am a person that was until recently still developing a Java 1.6 application, it was finally upgraded to Java 1.8. But the code changes were minor upgrades and patches....

Going to try and kick start hamcrest, so if you want to get it merged, please rebase from the branch `v2.3-candidates`. Still trying to understand how has permissions to perform...

@louisth fancy rebasing this from master, as `hamcrest-core` and `hamcrest-library` have been refactored a lot and also deprecated, so that everything is just in `hamcrest`.