That is useful information, and suggests a couple of changes in my
planning. First of all, I am not going to assume that the scripts have
been tested with spaces in file names. I'll create a special space-free
directory for my next test, to take that issue out of play for now.
Since I may be pioneering, I'm going to go ahead and propose an untested
change to the patch to switch to Runnable for the thread creation. I
would prefer to implement my proposed change, test it, and post a patch,
but it may be a while before I can test anything.
Patricia
Peter Firmstone wrote:
I must admit I haven't tried developing River on Windows, this should
assist us to grow our developer appeal. Recently the qa test suite was
changed from make build scripts to ant, I wonder if there are some
platform specific artifacts.
Has anyone else on the list tried the qa tests on Window's recently? It
was tested on that platform by the Sun developers, but with the make
file scripts I believe.
Peter.
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
I'm a programmer who would like to help with River. There does not
seem to be any one stop shop for the information I need to actually
start writing and presenting changes in the code. Currently, I'm
working on getting the qa tests to run on my home computer. This is,
for me, a far harder task than thinking up efficient algorithms and
data structures or writing Java.
I'm using a Windows XP box with Cygwin. I suspect I would be having an
easier time if I had a Solaris or Linux system.
For the benefit of any future volunteers, it would be useful to create
a "New Developer" Wiki page that I can edit with any tips I pick up
from river-dev or work out myself, as well as useful links with up to
date information.
Could someone with the right permissions create a page for me?
Thanks,
Patricia
