Would like to try out fest 2.x branch. I'm not familiar with maven, but I downloaded fest from github, which gave me a pom.xml, so I ran maven with mvn install, and get the following:
[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building FEST Fluent Assertions (Core) 2.0M9-SNAPSHOT
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[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0:enforce (enforce-maven) @ fest-assert-core ---
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[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @ fest-assert-core ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /Users/sbarnum/Java/fest-assert-2.x-master/src/main/resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile (default-compile) @ fest-assert-core ---
[INFO] Compiling 180 source files to /Users/sbarnum/Java/fest-assert-2.x-master/target/classes
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[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
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[ERROR] /Users/sbarnum/Java/fest-assert-2.x-master/src/main/java/org/fest/assertions/internal/Numbers.java:[31,17] cannot find symbol
symbol : class Comparison
location: class org.fest.assertions.internal.Numbers<NUMBER>
[ERROR] /Users/sbarnum/Java/fest-assert-2.x-master/src/main/java/org/fest/assertions/error/ShouldContain.java:[38,6] cannot find symbol
symbol : class Comparison
location: class org.fest.assertions.error.ShouldContain
[ERROR] /Users/sbarnum/Java/fest-assert-2.x-master/src/main/java/org/fest/assertions/error/ShouldContain.java:[53,73] cannot find symbol
symbol : class Comparison
location: class org.fest.assertions.error.ShouldContain
What am I missing? Is it ungrateful of me to ask for just a downloadable .jar?
I think, based on the output from their CI server, that their build is currently broken, and has been broken since Dec 15th. So nothing you did, they just have broken code in their repo.
You can pull the last successfully built jar out of their CI server here, under "Last Successful Artifacts"