I will check it out this week as well. 

Scott



On May 12, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just installed virtual box with ubuntu in it but have not got
> further. Maybe this week...
> 
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Fellows, any ideas what we can do now?
> 6 days past and we have no vote (except my implicit one).
> We now know we need to improve our build. But I really would like to
> start with that after 1.2.17
> 
> Suggestion: please let me know if you have a chance to vote or not. I
> will gladly wait for another while, but if it is definitely not
> possible, we need to see if we can cancel this vote and instead
> working towards an improved build.
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Curt Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On May 7, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All:
> >>
> >> Because I could not get the full build to run on Windows 7 with Maven 2 or 
> >> 3. I feel reluctant to VOTE +1 here. This is a know issue due to the use 
> >> the GNU app Winres. I get bits and pieces of the build to work but nothing 
> >> like the level of confidence I have running Commons builds for different 
> >> components. I can build the site (with the Maven stack trace noted in 
> >> other RC votes), I can run the tests. The changes seems OK, but... as a 
> >> new committer here I need to learn the code some more.
> >>
> >> Is the only way to get this to build is to install VirtualBox and a Linux 
> >> distro?
> >
> > A cloud provider (Amazon Web Services, for example), a bootable USB or CD 
> > would be another. A cloud provider could be problematic since you would not 
> > want to have your code signing key on a machine you don't control.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I will note the following nits though:
> >>
> >> The build instructions use both version 1.2.16 and 1.2.17 in text and 
> >> examples, see 
> >> "http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/site/trunk/docs/log4j/1.2/building.html
> >>
> >> This is not critical but should be fixed in SVN. I would like to see 
> >> version agnostic instructions or use the latest version (the one being 
> >> built).
> >>
> >> I see this warning from M3 and M2:
> >>
> >> prepare:
> >> [available] DEPRECATED - <available> used to override an existing property.
> >> [available] Build file should not reuse the same property name for 
> >> different values.
> >>
> >> Not a showstopper but should be addressed or documented in SVN.
> >
> > I haven't followed Ant for a long time. Ant properties since time began 
> > have been immutable once set. it was once acceptable style to take 
> > advantage of this documented behavior and, for example, set properties to a 
> > default value that would be ignored if the called provided an explicit 
> > value. Apparently, that fell out of style and hence this warning. I think 
> > the Nant didn't follow that lead and lots of confusion ensued.
> >
> > I can't hit the 72 hour mark, but can try to review and build within 24 
> > hours.
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