Re: My stab at a distribution

ALL

I downloaded and unzipped the files and
was able to run the tests through JSUnit and
JUnit.

Rick Rivello


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dimitris Dimitriadis" <dimitris@ontologicon.com>
To: "Dimitris Dimitriadis" <dimitris@ontologicon.com>
Cc: "Curt Arnold" <carnold@houston.rr.com>; <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: My stab at a distribution


> Corrected, I had to dig out the tools you indicated, works just fine.
> 
> So before finally  going for this release, would people please sanity 
> check? The only changes I'll make are to index.htm (minor fixes) as well 
> as creating a dated directory for versioning.
> 
> The distibution to check is 
> http://home.houston.rr.com/curta/dom1-core.tar.gz
> 
> /Dimitris
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 04:01 , Dimitris Dimitriadis wrote:
> 
> > OK, I'll explore further, however, I've seen the truncations in both 
> > your version and my clean build (zip).
> >
> > .js issue resolved now, as I see it.
> >
> > Let me check the matrix.html file and report back
> >
> > /Dimitris
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 03:49 , Curt Arnold wrote:
> >
> >> Dimitris Dimitriadis wrote:
> >>> general remark: the ecmascript/tests folder is very strange, contains
> >>> files with truncated filenames (problem with file name length?), 
> >>> several
> >>> similar files, eg. documentinvalidcharacterexcepti,
> >>> documentinvalidcharacterexc.1, documentinvalidcharacterexc.2 and
> >>> documentinvalidcharacterexc.3
> >>>
> >>> Problems during the build or file system related?
> >>
> >> I don't see that in my local copy of the tar.gz.  Though I often see
> >> warnings in other open source projects that .tar.gz files must be 
> >> extracted
> >> using GNU tar (or compatible) since earlier Unix tar's apparently had
> >> filename limits.  The distribution produces both a .zip and a .tar.gz, 
> >> but I
> >> only uploaded the .tar.gz since the .zip was much larger and I didn't 
> >> have
> >> enough space on my personal home page.
> >>
> >>> [dd] True, but we need to decide whether to have the source there, 
> >>> both
> >>> for Java and ECMA, just in case people want to write their own 
> >>> harness.
> >>> I'd go for including them, which is why I had them in my distribution
> >>> sent earlier.
> >>
> >> The Java source is provided in the dom1-core.jar.  The .js standalone 
> >> code
> >> is not usable by any known test framework.  I thought providing it 
> >> would be
> >> confusing since people may set breakpoints on the .js file, not 
> >> realizing
> >> that the running code is actually within the .html pages.
> >>
> >>> OK, but we still don't want to release before having the patches
> >>> built into a release of JsUnit?
> >>
> >> I'd prefer that we don't, but this would be tolerable.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The test matrix now has links to both the XML source and Doxygen
> >>> documentation for each test since Mozilla doesn't display raw XML in a
> >>> pleasing manner.
> >>>
> >> [dd] Several of the links to the Java source didn't work.
> >>
> >> Possibly the same issue with filename truncation.
> >>
> >>> 2. index.htm on the CVS. I don't see the point for this, except if we
> >>> manage to automate title, date creation (releases will vary as to when
> >>> they are released) and other things to make it relevant for the
> >>> particular distribution created
> >>
> >> The idea is that anyone with the right tools installed can come back 
> >> and
> >> generate any specific release by checking out properly tagged sources 
> >> from
> >> the CVS and building.  In our case that depends that several external
> >> resources remain available and unchanging (the DOM specs, JUnit, 
> >> JSUnit).
> >>
> >> I cheated (it was getting really late) and did not do a "ant clean" 
> >> before
> >> "ant dom1-core-dist" and inadvertantly provided xercesImpl.jar and
> >> xmlParserAPIs.jar in my distribution.  The proper way to do the 
> >> distribution
> >> is to do a full checkout of the CVS sources to a clean directory and 
> >> then
> >> run "ant dom1-core-dist" to ensure that no uncommitted file is 
> >> participating
> >> in the build.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 13 February 2002 10:38:51 UTC