Hi Geir,
If folks find the ibiblio site slow and the latest versions of what we
need are not available, is there any merit in an Apache Harmony
repository being set up that would contain whatever binaries are
required by developers (e.g. eclipse compiler jars, BC provider jar, etc) ?
Best regards,
George
IBM United Kingdom Limited
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
George Harley wrote:
Hi Stepan,
And if redistributing the Eclipse jars was an issue then we could
simply make use of the Maven jar repository at ibiblio.org. The jars
necessary for using the Eclipse compiler can be obtained from there
without the need to download the entire Eclipse platform (see
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/eclipse/jars/jdtcore-3.1.0.jar) which
reduces the "pain" considerably.
Well, ibiblio is a pain - it can be slow to the point of timeout,
which is really no fun. Been there, raged at that.
Ant build scripts could simply make use of the "get" task (with the
"usetimestamp" option to avoid unnecessary downloading) to get the
jdtcore-3.1.0.jar and then use "unzip" to extract the
jdtCompilerAdapter.jar that is contained in there. The modified
trunk/make/build-java.xml file inside the attachments for HARMONY-57
and HARMONY-88 use the ibiblio.org repository in just this way to
obtain various xml support jars and even the junit jar.
Yes, this is what I was trying to do in security2 a while back to
automate getting the junit and bcprov jars for testing. problem was
that ibiblio didn't have the right version of bcprov :)
Best regards,
George
IBM United Kingdom Limited
Stepan Mishura wrote:
If redistributing Eclipse's jars is not an issue then I think it
would be
good to put them to SVN and set up the ant build script accordingly.
This
will simplify build process.
Also this can be applied, for example, to BC provider jar - we'll avoid
questions like: which version of BC did you use? Everybody will use
jar that
is distributed with Harmony code base and is used to test it.
Thanks,
Stepan Mishura
Intel Middleware Products Division
On 2/13/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm dorking around with some ant scripts for doing a complete unit
test
run over all modules.
After some pondering, I'd like to have us eat our own dogfood (ok,
Eclipse's dogfood) and start doing everything that we can using the
eclipse java compiler, with the goal of self-hosting at some point
with
a javac.exe that uses it.
So to that end, I'd like to set things up so that by default, we
use the
eclipse compiler, but that means that people have to go through a
[painful] process to get the jars (2 of them) - namely if you don't
have
Eclipse installed, you have to go get it and dig two jars out.
I'd like to set things up so we don't have to put in ant/lib to
make it
less intrusive to people - we could have a local lib dir and do that
maybe.
Anyway, anyone have strong feelings or suggestions?
geir