[Springframework-developer] Re: Is it possible to publish nightly builds?

[Vinay A. <vin...@ya...>]

Matt thanks for the response. I have tried it already, I ran into JDK 
versioning issues (note that you need proper JDK version to compile 
everything but do not need proper JVM to run). Even if I install 
appropriate JDK version, there is high probability that I will run into 
issues like class path, correct versions of third party libraries etc.

Unfortunately in this industry, blinded with the 'it works on my box' 
syndrome, we forget to cater to the needs of our customers. There are 
probably many people like me who do not want to go through the pain of 
downloading everything and compiling. One obstacle is enough to distract 
early adopters. Providing a nightly build can only be good for Spring 
and developers.

Hopefully I made a convincing case.
Vinay


Matt Raible wrote:

> ... To play devil's advocate ... ;-)
> 
> Nightly builds are nice.  However, Spring is *very* easy to checkout
> from CVS and build yourself.  As far as I can tell, all you need to have
> installed is JDK 1.4 and Ant - which every developer should have anyway.
> 
> Once you've spent the 5 minutes to check everything out, it's easy to do
> "cvs update"...
> 
> Of course, if you're behind a firewall, you might need to use cvsgrab.
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: spr...@li... 
>>[mailto:spr...@li...]
>> On Behalf Of Vinay Aggarwal
>>Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:49 PM
>>To: spr...@li...
>>Subject: [Springframework-developer] Is it possible to 
>>publish nightly builds?
>>
>>
>>
>>Is it possible to publish the nightly build somewhere where it can be 
>>downloaded? It should be very easy to do as the build is done 
>>anyway, it 
>>is just a matter of publishing it.
>>
>>It is a fairly standard practice in OSS world. It does give 
>>developers a 
>>head start without having to download the source and compiling it 
>>themselves.
>>
>>Vinay
>>
>>