Thanks to GeoSolutions for additional project resources, I am all in favour of
our Jenkins overlords.
Is there any artefact that the windows build server can produce that would put
it more seriously in the line of fire? This would allow us as a community
to take a windows build failure more seriously...
Perhaps it could be responsible for nightly windows installer creation?
--
Jody Garnett
On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 at 12:09 AM, Simone Giannecchini wrote:
> Dear All,
> first of all sorry for cross-posting but I believe this topic is
> important for both lists of developers.
>
> We have been fighting lately to keep GS and GT (GWC as well btw) build
> happily on Windows with partial success; everytime we fixed things
> someone committed something that broke the build again.
> I had a discussion with Andrea about this (he is not really a Windows
> guy :) ) but we actually got to the same conclusion: the build on
> windows breaks mostly because
> of wrong assumptions (i.e. linux path when looking for files), wrong
> handling of paths with spaces or even not properly closing files and
> streams. The point is that these are not Windows problems (i.e.
> something to blame
> Windows and forget about) but are real problems hidden by the fact
> that we build on Linux _only_. Then my point is, why we give away
> linux exe and bin if we don't make any effort to have GS and GT build
> on Win?
>
> Here is what I suggest. We ( as in GeoSolutions) will set up an
> official build server with Windows and dedicate it to the projects
> (giving everybody access to Jenkins on it).
> At that point all developers should make sure that they don't break
> the build anymore on Windows, which basically mean taking extra care
> when writing code and tests, which can do only good to our beloved
> projects!
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Simone Giannecchini
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