It is not just about maintenance... I can 99% guarantee that the
shell script will work as expected, and that when people run it, that
it will perform the same as it does on my systems.
I can't say the same for a batch file. The point of bootstrap was to
provide that level of reliability and assurance that everyone is
running through the same steps, so we can be sure that at the very
minimum we have a tree that can always be built from source.
I really do not recommend that we change this now by adding a new
path for users to run through... I can see it now, users posting
problems about failed builds, and me asking oh which bootstrap did
you use? Oh, I can't really test to see your problem, can you please
use the shell script.... blah blah blah.
Bootstrap can be removed as soon as our artifacts, the spec artifacts
and openejb artifacts are being regularly published. Still waiting
on m2 2.0.5 to fix some problems as well, but if needed I can bring
the simple build script back (which has a unix and windows flavor
that I am willing to support as it is very simple). And hopefully as
soon as 2.0.5 is out, we won't need that either.
* * *
I would much, much, much rather that windows developers install Cygwin.
--jason
On Aug 22, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Jeff Genender wrote:
What is your time period until removal of bootstrap? If there is a
second version for windows, perhaps Mark (who BTW also is a committer)
would be willing to maintain it.
Jason Dillon wrote:
I do not really want to have to maintain both the unix version and
the
windows versions of this script. I do periodically make some
changes to
bootstrap when I find it makes things easier.
Bootstrap is temporary and will be removed shortly, and I would
rather
force users to install Cygwin during that period than start to
maintain
a batch file that can function the same as the shell script.
I appreciate your willingness to write this script, but I think that
adding it will be more of a hassle...
--jason
On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Mark DeLaFranier wrote:
Hey everybody,
I've ported the bootstrap build script to windows so that Cygwin is
not required. A Jira entry was created with the new script
attached:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-2345
I'd like to get some comments, if any, from people as to their
thoughts on the script and if it would be a worth while improvement.
Thanks
Mark
