Got it -- thanks. Tim
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Tim Ellison wrote: > >> What does: "allow them to do the follow-on checkout w/o having it do the >> build" mean? > > When you checkout enhanced/trunk, you get a 'working_classlib' > directory, and a 'working_vm' directory that, when you fire off "ant", > will be set to be a working tree for both, respectively. > > Right now, firing off ant will build the snapshots. > > But to make it easy, I'll make a > > $ ant update_dirs > > or something that does that step to SVN head w/o the follow on building > and snapshot making. > > make sense? > > geir > >> >> Regards, >> Tim >> >> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >>> QuickStart >>> ======== >>> >>> One of the things I was planning to add to our front-page somewhere is >>> the same thing you find when you buy some kind of consumer electronics, >>> like a camera - a "quick start" page. >>> We need two of them - "QuickStart for Harmony Users" and "Quickstart for >>> Harmony Contributors", which would be how to get and use the snapshot, >>> and how to checkout and build the code, respectively. >>> >>> For the latter, I was going to advocate that people use the >>> enhanced/trunk approach, as that's a single checkout for them that turns >>> into the maintainable classlib and drlvm trees. I do need to add a >>> target or two to the /trunk/build.xml script to allow them to do the >>> follow-on checkout w/o having it do the build, but that's easy. >>> >>> Does anyone have a problem with me advocating this method? It still the >>> standard classlib and DRLVM trees that a person can svn update, do >>> diffs, create patches, and if a committer, checkin. But it places them >>> in a very clear and useful on-disk relationship with each other, that >>> can then be used for building the snapshot. >>> >>> FAQ >>> ==== >>> >>> This goes w/o saying what we're going to do :) First question will be >>> "How do I add a new FAQ entry?" with a template for the xdoc. I was >>> thinking that this should be hosted on the wiki, but there's something >>> really nice about the permanence of the main site. Maybe the last entry >>> on the site will be "Where are tehre more FAQs?" with a pointer to a >>> wiki page, and then if people don't want to do patches to main page, >>> they can enter them there, and we can harvest easily. >>> >>> geir >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> IBM Java technology centre, UK. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
