Jose, Price, thank you for your feedback, it really helps. Jose, I have modified the script according to your suggestions, thank you. I am going to commit the changes shortly.
Thanks, Jacopo On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Prince Sewani wrote: > Hi Jacopo, > > Although I'm not a windows user but yes it works fine from the tools folder > on windows. > > > Regards > Prince > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 3:32 PM > Subject: Re: "bin" folder for executable files/scripts > > Actually, the /d shouldn't be required: > > =========================================== > echo off > set OFBIZ_HOME=%0\..\..\ > echo on > cd %OFBIZ_HOME% > "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar ofbiz.jar > echo off > =========================================== > > Thanks, > > Jacopo > > On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > >> I did progress on this: I was able to move all the scripts to the "tools" >> folder; I didn't add the "bin" subfolder to it because the existing files in >> the "tools" folder are not used and can be removed: in this way we will have >> a "tools" folder containing all the platform dependent scripts. >> But now I need some help from Windows users: >> >> could you please try to create a "startofbiz.bat" file in the "tools" folder >> with the following content: >> =========================================== >> echo off >> set OFBIZ_HOME=%0\..\..\ >> echo on >> cd /d %OFBIZ_HOME% >> "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -jar ofbiz.jar >> echo off >> =========================================== >> >> Then you should try to run it from the home folder: >> >> tools\startorfbiz.bat >> >> and from the tools folder: >> >> cd tools >> startorfbiz.bat >> >> Both should work fine: I already did this work for the sh files but I >> couldn't test the above mechanism for Windows. >> >> I would really appreciate your feedback. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jacopo >> >> >> On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Prince Sewani wrote: >> >>> Well the 'bin' clashing with eclipse default is really a concern >>> to being with, the learning curve is yet steep, and with to dos of IDE's as >>> of now, >>> everyone is pretty much acquainted. Also in-case we change it to 'bin' in >>> the main folder, >>> then there'll be an additional set of documentation required for that to >>> help users on different Operating systems. >>> >>> Unless we go like opentaps (felt that on a few things) and then one is not >>> really able to use it (Just a comment No offense). >>> >>> >>> "tools/bin" sounds great, unless that also doesn't call of any other clash >>> or so. >>> >>> Regards >>> Prince >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alak...@gmail.com> >>> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org >>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:13 PM >>> Subject: Re: "bin" folder for executable files/scripts >>> >>> bin is good enough. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Jacques Le Roux >>> <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Jacopo, >>>> >>>> tools/bin sounds good to me >>>> >>>> Jacques >>>> >>>> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> >>>> >>>>> Thanks everyone for the valuable comments! >>>>> I am trying to finalize this thread: there seems to be consensus to move >>>>> all the executable scripts into a folder to keep things organized. >>>>> For the name of the folder: >>>>> * some of you think that the "bin" (as I originally suggested) should be >>>>> used because it is often used for this purpose >>>>> * some of you are worried that this could interfere with some commonly >>>>> used IDEs (e.g. Eclipse) that use the bin folder for output and need to be >>>>> configured to use a different standard name >>>>> >>>>> After reviewing what we have now in OFBiz I am wondering if we could use >>>>> the already existing "tools" folder; its current layout is: >>>>> tools/api-java16 >>>>> tools/src >>>>> >>>>> option a: add all the executables to tools/ folder directly >>>>> option b: create a subfolder tools/bin and add all the executables there >>>>> >>>>> What do you think? >>>>> >>>>> Jacopo >>>>> >>>>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Then we could recommend to name .bin for instance >>>>>> But I wonder if this will not be a source of problem for newbies... >>>>>> >>>>>> And also for Windows users, bin is not a standard name at all >>>>>> >>>>>> Jacques >>>>>> >>>>>> From: "Adrian Crum" <adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> That's fine with me. We just need to update the Eclipse configuration >>>>>>> files. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Adrian >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2/29/2012 3:20 PM, J. Eckard wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I think that eclipse / eclipse users should have to accommodate the >>>>>>>> directory structure of OFBiz, not the other way around. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks for the feedback! Any suggestion for the name of the folder? I >>>>>>>>> was hoping to use a "standard" name, that is why I initially proposed >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> "bin" folder... but since that is not an option we will have to think >>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>> something else (unless we use the existing "tools" folder but I am >>>>>>>>> not sure >>>>>>>>> about the intended usage of that). >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Jacopo >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Feb 27, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> +1 >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Jacques >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> From: "Adrian Crum"<adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Sounds great, but don't use "bin" - that folder is created by >>>>>>>>>>> Eclipse and it is in the SVN ignore list. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> -Adrian >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On 2/27/2012 7:10 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> The number of executable files (*.sh and *bat) in the OFBiz home >>>>>>>>>>>> folder is rather big: what if we create a "bin" folder and we move >>>>>>>>>>>> all of >>>>>>>>>>>> them there? In this way users will have a place where they will >>>>>>>>>>>> find all the >>>>>>>>>>>> executable files only and the main folder will be cleaner. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Jacopo >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>
