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

[<jue...@we...>]

Vinay,
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While I certainly understand the desire for nightly builds (we actually =
do them, we just don't publish them yet), I'd still like to second Matt =
that Spring is surprisingly easy to build from CVS.
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You'll get all third-party libraries from our CVS, and a prepared build =
script that auto-detects all those. So basically, all you need to do is =
install JDK 1.4.2 and invoke our build.xml in the root of the "spring" =
module. We even ship a matching Ant version. And for Windows, there's a =
build.bat that just requires JAVA_HOME to be set and uses the included =
Ant to perform the build.
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Essentially, it's the same as when you download one of our =
"-with-dependencies" distributions. Those zips include everything you =
need to build Spring yourself, just like above. If you fetch a CVS =
snapshot, it's the same build file and same directory structure, just =
with newer contents.
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Juergen
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Von: spr...@li... im Auftrag =
von Vinay Aggarwal
Gesendet: Fr 23.07.2004 09:31
An: spr...@li...
Betreff: [Springframework-developer] Re: Is it possible to publish =
nightly builds?




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
>>
>>



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