- From: Jens Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:27:15 +0200
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
Dear validator team, setting up a local instance of the CSS validator (based on CVS co on August 7) I noticed a few more or less severe issues. As I am not particularly experienced w/ neither Tomcat nor Java, and as I did not document all problems I came across anyway I'm keeping this short though. * Documentation (aka setup instructions [1]) is generally thin and vague, at best, and per se it really doesn't suffice to get the validator running. * <IndexGenerator.java> contains a wrong path, it should be "org/w3c/css/index/" instead of "org/w3c/css/css/". (* <Messages.java> might benefit from a revision as way less code might be necessary to achieve the desired outcome.) * There seems to be a general issue w/ "getFile" functions (lots of "cannot be found" errors), alas, I cannot tell if that is a general error or something "machine" specific. (It's been necessary to include fix path refs and to sacrifice pseudo content negotiation to work around these issues in my case.) * <build.xml> would benefit from excluding the "build" directory from being copied (thus slowing down the process); adding "<exclude name="build/**"/>" should fix that. I suggest the documentation to be updated and extended and the code to be checked again. Also, if W3C's CVS trunk must not only contain code that is tested and working, a note pointing that out might be a good thing. Thanks, Jens. [1] http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/DOWNLOAD.html -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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