Improving source drops documentation

2011-10-10 Thread Dan Smith
I build infrequently, but when I do, I often get errors due to out-of-date jaxp and jax-ws source bundles. My typical process is something like this: 1) Start to build 2) Observe a failure complaining about an improper $ALT_DROPS_DIR 3) Track down my note where I wrote down the URL where I can g

Re: Improving source drops documentation

2011-10-11 Thread Kelly O'Hair
My plan of record has been to just unzip these bundles right into the repositories and get rid of this painful situation, that I have to confess, I created. :^( But I was thinking I could come up with some kind of way to paint these sources RED or something so that people do not patch these files

Re: Improving source drops documentation

2011-10-11 Thread Dan Smith
So it sounds like doing anything to improve the current setup would be a waste of time, since it's just going to go away. That's fine. Is committing zip files frowned upon? That would make clear that the "source" is the intact bundle, not a bunch of separate, editable files. Just a thought..

Re: Improving source drops documentation

2011-10-11 Thread Kelly O'Hair
Checking in any binary files is frowned upon. -kto On Oct 11, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Dan Smith wrote: > So it sounds like doing anything to improve the current setup would be a > waste of time, since it's just going to go away. That's fine. > > Is committing zip files frowned upon? That would mak

Re: Improving source drops documentation

2011-10-11 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 10:52 Tue 11 Oct , Kelly O'Hair wrote: > My plan of record has been to just unzip these bundles right into the > repositories and get rid of this painful > situation, that I have to confess, I created. :^( > But I was thinking I could come up with some kind of way to paint these > sources

Re: Improving source drops documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Fredrik Öhrström
2011/10/12 Dr Andrew John Hughes : > FWIW, I recently did exactly that in IcedTea because I'm sick of all the > problems this drop solution causes. > This has cut things down from needing five tarballs (jaxp + jaxws > repositories + three drop zips) to two with > everything in.  Should someone re

Re: Improving source drops documentation

2011-10-12 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 13:52 Wed 12 Oct , Fredrik Öhrström wrote: > 2011/10/12 Dr Andrew John Hughes : > > FWIW, I recently did exactly that in IcedTea because I'm sick of all the > > problems this drop solution causes. > > This has cut things down from needing five tarballs (jaxp + jaxws > > repositories + thre

Re: Improving source drops documentation

2011-10-17 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
.. you could use a patch file instead of a zip file. -- Jon On 10/11/2011 11:35 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: Checking in any binary files is frowned upon. -kto On Oct 11, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Dan Smith wrote: So it sounds like doing anything to improve the current setup would be a waste of time,