On 7-Jul-08, at 10:37 PM, Brett Porter wrote:
On 08/07/2008, at 11:59 AM, Brian Fox wrote:
You mean bootstrap first, then use that build to run
release:prepare...?
I would expect release:prepare to be run normally, but the bootstrap
to be used in release:perform if this is the case.
Yes, with the previously built bootstrapped version.
I'm working release planning, and I want to define how we actually
build Maven for a release.
For me it essentially boils down to:
Use the last bootstrap version of the build to produce the version
of Maven for the given release.
I'm fine with that (I'm also fine with "use the last release and
only the last release of Maven to produce the release").
I think this lets us remain internally self-consistent, and avoids
the previous release problem.
What was the previous release problem?
I just want know that it's coming off the same machine with the same
pattern so that we have some control. There's been platform specific
things in the past. I don't know if there has ever been any problems
because one release was made with a particular version of maven. But
we will know from now on.
If we use the last stable version of Maven we get into the problem
of requiring all those versions if you really wanted to start from
scratch. I think this makes it self-contained and will keep the
Linux distro people happy because they can build everything from
source.
I'm not sure about that, since the bootstrap still downloads a
number of binary dependencies, but they're easily substitutable and
it's a start.
With the version map in properties the way I've now setup they could
if they wanted to. And John actually has code we used for some C stuff
to build the dependency from source first. Actually we should probably
share that with the Linux heads.
If no one has any objections I'm going to build this into the
release plan for 2.1 and codify it in Hudson.
I'll respond to John's mail directly, but I think there's some
issues with this.
Not sure what you mean, with building consistently with a bootstrapped
version?
Cheers,
Brett
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Thanks,
Jason
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