junit compile scope

Liquibase Development
1

liquibase-core-3.3.0 depends on junit:

junit

junit

compile

Is it really necessary to use the compile scope?
2

It currently is because there are portions of the “production” code that can be used by extension writers as starting points for testing their extensions. For normal use, junit isn’t a runtime dependency, but it’s needed to compile Liquibase.

I’m working on a refactoring of that to remove the dependency and better split the SDK out. 

Nathan