Investigate getting rid of external dependencies in junit-console

[junit-team]

Investigate getting rid of external dependencies in junit-console

[marcphilipp]

I've discarded the fat-jar idea for now. I tried using the shadow Gradle plugin to relocate jopt-simple. However, jopt-simple uses ResourceBundles that are loaded from *.properties files where keys are prefixed with class names. Those would need to be transformed to reflect the relocation as well.

Instead I've used Gradle's application plugin to publish a ZIP and TAR archives that contain shell/batch scripts and all of the dependencies.

The content looks like this:

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In addition, I think we should add a command-line option to ConsoleRunner that would allow to specify additional classpath entries and use a custom URLClassLoader.

[sbrannen]

I think the ZIP/TAR option is a viable alternative to a fat jar for the short term.

Regarding the additional classpath entries and a custom URLClassLoader, I would recommend you open separate issues to address those. If you do that, I think we could also go ahead and close this issue, since you've already made the switch to JOpt Simple.

[marcphilipp]

Work on a custom URLClassLoader continues in #50. In addition, I've started to write tests (to be continued in #49).