Hi Jon, sorry for the difficulties building webtest from source. I agree that our build process is too complicated (I have my self too often problems).
> So, I have a number of questions. > 1) Where are all the missing jar files, and why are they not > included in the release? Webtest has started using a maven pom for its dependencies. When the fetchDependencies target is run, the dependencies are downloaded from a maven repository and saved in your local repository. To make them available to eclipse, you can add them manually (they must be in YOUR_HOME_DIR/.m2/repository) or install maven 2 and use the eclipse plugin to generate your .classpath file [1]. Because the move to the pom is not complete, you still need to add some jars manually to the classpath > 2) Why do the pdf related tests repeatedly fail, and why does the > build continue to fail after I’d apparently removed the tests? no idea. They run correctly on my Linux and Windows computers as well as on the build server and on the computers of the other committers. You need to investigate more. > 3) Why is there no task in the ant build file that will allow me to > build Webtest without having to run all of these tests? it's probably a feature ;-( Personally I often add the classes generated by Eclipse to my classpath when I try to develop something new with WebTest. First when it works correctly I run the heavy build process. > 4) Why is the generated Webtest.dtd completely empty after the > build? Is it because the build failed because of the failing tests? I've seen this once too. As far as I remember the DTD is generated with the documentation. It's probably the wrong place. I hope my answers help you going further. Marc. [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/overview.html -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Host+of+problems+in+building+Canoo+Webtest-t1685787.html#a4573340 Sent from the WebTest forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
