Re: [Firebird-docs] GitHub, Build bugs with Java 9, Assorted Questions!

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 2018-02-16 19:13, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 14/02/18 08:01, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> 
>>> Q3. Anyone else seen this? With a clean build? Oracle Java 9?
>> 
>> The build doesn't work with Java 9. In any case, it works OK for me 
>> with Java 8, on Windows.
> 
> Ok, good news there. I've downgraded Java to Java 8, removed the
> fork="true" additions and built the docs again. No problems. So I'll
> stick with Java 8 for now.
> 
> I might even try to learn some Ant stuff! Maybe. Perhaps.
> 
> 
>> A possible workaround is to add dir="${html.dir}" to the java task in 
>> the html task (when fork="true", this will use that as the current 
>> working directory), I haven't tested it though. However, I'm not sure 
>> if forking may cause other issues, so maybe we should tread carefully 
>> here.
> 
> No worries. I didn't try this option as the Java 8 one worked fine.
> I've reverted the build.xml back to how it was and it's fine. As you
> mention, what other issues could have been unleashed!
> 
> 
>> In any case, maybe we should look at updating ant (and maybe some of 
>> the other dependencies).
> 
> We need an Ant guru then! :-)

I have a bit of experience with ant. I was considering to do some 
experiments to either upgrade ant, or maybe try and replace the ant 
build file with a gradle build file, and at the same time remove the 
need for the separate libs.zip and tools.zip download (both Ant and 
Gradle can download dependencies on demand from a remote repository). 
That might also make it easier to upgrade things in the future.

But it is a matter of time and energy, and I'm a bit low on both at the 
moment.

Mark