Certain regenerate tasks do require perl and python indeed. On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 2:23 PM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While editing this CONTRIBUTING.md I found the following statement: > > Some build tasks (in particular `./gradlew check`) require Perl > and Python 3. > > Is it actually true that we require Perl? > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 8:11 AM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So I'm glad we have a fix for this, but it's making me realize that > > any new joiner that uses intellij (probably most of them?) will have > > this problem and have no idea what to do about it. They will just > > conclude - running Lucene tests in intellij sucks. If we revived that > > intellij target maybe that would help - but .. you would have to know > > to run it! So then I went to look at our project web page to see what > > kind of developer docs we have that a new contributor might find. > > > > The first place Google sent me was to our github page > > https://github.com/apache/lucene/?tab=readme-ov-file-- that one has > > some very brief description about how to build, but nothing about > > intellij. It does have a prominent link to "Developer documentation" > > which is here: https://github.com/apache/lucene/tree/main/dev-docs but > > that folder is mostly empty; it has a few somewhat esoteric bits of > > info, but again nothing basic about building and testing; no > > discussion of all the myriad gradle tasks and deep help info that > > exists there. > > > > Next I tried looking on apache.org, but actually it is quite hard to > > find any info about Lucene there - Apache just has too many projects. > > I did finally find this page though > > https://projects.apache.org/project.html?lucene-core and it links to > > https://lucene.apache.org/core/. From there, I see a "Developer" link, > > again this page has a paucity of info; basically it links you to > > github, jenkins, and to the wiki. The "wiki" link actually just takes > > you to a different github page -- and *this* one actually has some > > useful info on how to build -- I think it's our best "intro" page for > > a new developer. However all it says about IntelliJ is: "IntelliJ - > > IntelliJ idea can import and build gradle-based projects out of the > > box." true, sort of. > > > > So I think I will (1) add a note about this IJ build setting to that > > page, and (2) consolidate some of the other links to go here instead > > of routing folks through a twisty maze of web pages > > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 7:45 AM Stefan Vodita <stefan.vod...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > +1, I had the same problem and it seems better now. Thank you, Dawid! > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 12:20, Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> > > >> Oh! TIL! so much better, thanks. And now I have the "Repeat" option > > >> back in the test runner > > >> > > >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 6:18 AM Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Don't know what's causing this... but I never run IntelliJ builds > or tests through its gradle launcher, actually. Switch it to compile and > run using its own built-in method - much faster. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Dawid > > >> > > > >> > On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 12:10 PM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> >> > > >> >> Hi, I wonder how many of us are using intellij to run Lucene > tests, and if you are, have you noticed it having gotten really quite slow? > It seems to take a long time doing... Something... Before the test starts > running. I have a suspicion that we are using gradle in a way that forces > it to rebuild its cache every time or something like that. Once upon a time > we had an intellij build setup target that set things up in a more intellij > friendly way, according gradle, didn't we? Does that still exist? > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
