On 17/01/2012 01:15, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2012/1/17 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>:
>> On 16/01/2012 19:04, Sylvain Laurent wrote:
>>>
>>> On 16 janv. 2012, at 10:44, Rainer Jung wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Unit test failure due to missing target directory in src dist
>>>> ================================================================
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that test/webapp-3.0-virtual-library/target is missing from the 
>>>> src dist. So when rebuilding from src dist and running unit tests, I get a 
>>>> failure in TestVirtualContext, because some resource which is usually 
>>>> retrieved form the target dir is missing:
>>>>
>>>> Testcase: testVirtualClassLoader took 7.434 sec
>>>>        FAILED
>>>> expected:<200> but was:<404>
>>>> junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: expected:<200> but was:<404>
>>>>        at 
>>>> org.apache.catalina.loader.TestVirtualContext.assertPageContains(TestVirtualContext.java:302)
>>>>        at 
>>>> org.apache.catalina.loader.TestVirtualContext.assertPageContains(TestVirtualContext.java:294)
>>>>        at 
>>>> org.apache.catalina.loader.TestVirtualContext.testVirtualClassLoader(TestVirtualContext.java:100)
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK the root cause is, that we exclude **/target/** in the ant target 
>>>> dist-source from being copied.
>>>>
>>>> Note that there is also test/webapp-3.0-virtual-library/target.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know, whether we can simply drop this exclude, or should rename 
>>>> the directory. I CC'd Sylvain explicitely, maybe he can comment on it.
>>>
>>> If there are no side effect to dropping this exclude, you may do it (I 
>>> really don't know enough of the build system of tomcat).
>>> Otherwise I can rename those directories so that it is not excluded. Just 
>>> let me know.
>>
>> If I recall correctly, those directories are excluded because some IDEs
>> use that name by default. If you could rename them that would be great.
> 
> Not IDEs, but Maven. It writes its output into directories named
> "target", in each of its modules. (I guess that is not configurable,
> grr...)
> 
> That is why "target" was present in .gitignore when it was first added,
> [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1187740
> 
> This fault is a combination of mine
> [2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1204938
> 
> that applied patterns from gitignore to src distribution and of Sylvain's
> [3] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1209731
> 
> when Sylvain removed that line from ".gitignore"
> and used that name in his commit.

Thanks for the full explanation. I didn't have time to look into that
yesterday.

In that case, I agree with your plan below and will do that shortly.

Mark

> I am generally in favor of using more targeted patterns in "dist-source" 
> target,
> (That is, comment out "**/target/**" for now, with a comment that we
> use that name,
> and add the same comment to .gitignore
> and later exclude more specific patterns when a need comes)
> but consider if one of developers used Maven to work on something in modules.
> 
> Currently modules/jdbc-pool and modules/tomcat-lite have pom.xml,
> though svn:ignore property on those directories does not list "target"
> as excluded.
> 
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Kolinko
> 
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