[Biojava-l] Re: Preparation for a 1.1 release?

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi Michael,

I have no experience with ant. If you want to, feel free to modify the ant
build script to do more sensible things. Back in the dark ages, I was
invisiging most people working from CVS, so didn't want to burden them with
getting ant as well. I don't realy have a feel for how many people work from
CVS and how many grab the .jar files from the web site. Open to perswasioin.

The other isue is that there is no VM for the alpha-unix platform that hosts
biojava.org (unless you know of one), so we would have to run jobs on the
anonymous cvs machine - a bit more work to set up.

Matthew

"Michael L. Heuer" wrote:

> > Toolchain:
> >
> >    - The idea of using programs in the demos directory as test
> >      cases doesn't really seem to be working out -- I'd like
> >      to see a proper test harness, and a java equivalent of
> >      `make test'.
>
> We build and test portions of biojava as part of a larger system we have
> inhouse; as such we use ant as the build tool and JUnit as the test
> harness, although in all honesty any test harness will do.
>
> Our build runs from a build machine separate from the development
> environment, where ant runs nightly or weekly from a cron, checks out the
> main branch from cvs, builds, tests, and e-mails the cron output back to
> the development group.
>
> <!--
>
>   Generic ant build file
>
>   targets:
>
>     update       checks out or updates module from cvs
>     compile
>     package      builds the jar file (default)
>     javadocs
>     dist
>     dist-zip    'binary' release (jar & documentation) in zip format
>     dist-tgz    'binary' release (jar & documentation) in tar.gz format
>     dist-both    both dist-zip & dist-tgz
>     clean        cleans up the build & dist directories
>     test         runs default test harness
>
>   portions Copyright (c) 1999-2000 The Apache Software Foundation.
>
> -->
>
> I was actually quite suprised to see this recent article
>
> http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/j-ant/?n-j-11160
>
> which advocates a very similar process.
>
> There is an ant file in cvs already, but it does not do everything the
> Builder code and scripts do.  If people were willing to move forward with
> some sort of test harness, I can update the ant build script accordingly.
>
>    michael
>
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