Re: [DrJava] Please Add Any New Dependent Classes to CVS

[Robert C. <co...@cs...>]

Neal Horowitz wrote:

> although it is an easy problem to make (and has been made in the=20
> past), the problem this time is that it is not in the drjava part of=20
> the cvs tree, it's in the util directory (specifically=20
> edu/rice/cs/util/swing), and so will not be gotten by an ant update=20
> from within drjava. The solution is either to run "cvs update" from=20
> src/edu/rice/cs (or any parent directory), or to do an "ant update"=20
> from within the util package of drjava. (This is also a really common=20
> problem. I don't even remember how many times I've wondered who=20
> managed to commit broken code before finally remembering to update util=
!)
> Neal
>
> *From:* drj...@li...=20
> [mailto:drj...@li...] *On Behalf Of=20
> *Jonathan Lugo
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:55 PM
> *To:* drj...@li...
> *Subject:* [DrJava] Please Add Any New Dependent Classes to CVS
>
> There have been some resent problems with the CVS tree due to missing=20
> classes. Specifically, the ui.MainFrame class now depends on a small=20
> class named UnfocusableButton. This class, however is no where on the=20
> CVS tree. It=92s probably easy to create the new class and forget to do=
=20
> the appropriate CVS add. While the code will compile and test on the=20
> committers machine (since the class is there), not all the code gets=20
> sent. So, whoever created the UnfocusableButton class, please commit=20
> it so we can compile.
>
> This seems like an easy problem to make. Is there some feasible=20
> automation we can implement? Is it possible have ant ignore anything=20
> that=92s not a .java file but still do some check or prompt for java=20
> files that would be prefixed with a =93?=94 in the CVS output?
>
> - jonathan
>

Why can't we define an ant update update command for the parent cs=20
directory (above util, drjava and lib) that
updates the entire subtree. We could make this the standard update=20
command to synchronize a local copy
of the source with sourceforge.

-- Corky