Re: [Springframework-developer] Changes to build.xml to run autobuilds build on 1.5 as well

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

I am. It seems fairly random too, i.e. last night I sent an email to the 
user list and cc'ed the dev list, and it showed up on one list 
immediately, but only this morning on the other.

Alef Arendsen wrote:

> Anybody else having experiencing major delays with the mailinglist???
>
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> *From:* spr...@li... 
> [mailto:spr...@li...] *On 
> Behalf Of *Alef Arendsen
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:46 PM
> *To:* spr...@li...; 
> spr...@li...
> *Subject:* RE: [Springframework-developer] Changes to build.xml to run 
> autobuilds build on 1.5 as well
>
> You're right, but I'll be adding support for running the unit tests on 
> 1.4 as well... I was first thinking about adding a simple master build 
> script that executes the two builds (1.4 and 1.5) but the problem here 
> is that the 'ant' task does not support forking of a new JVM and doing 
> an 'exec' is not an option, since I want to preserve the log files. 
> JUnit does support the fork (we're already doing it) and you can also 
> specify a JVM to use.
>
> About building (compiling), I thought the behavior when building on 
> 1.5 in combination with adding the compatibility flag would be the 
> same as with building on 1.4, wouldn't it?
>
> Alef
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spr...@li... on behalf 
> of Juergen Hoeller
> Sent: Wed 3/30/2005 8:15 PM
> To: spr...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Changes to build.xml to run 
> autobuilds build on 1.5 as well
>
> Well, I don't object to such a property in general. But such a 
> property only
> makes sense if you intend to build the 1.4 version on JDK 1.5: I don't 
> think
> there's much point in that; building the 1.5 version only would be
> sufficient then.
>
> The capability of our build script to build on 1.4 is really just 
> meant as a
> fallback for users that want to do custom builds on their 1.4 JDK. The 
> only
> value we could add to the auto-builds is to check that building the 1.4
> version actually works *on JDK 1.4*, which we can't check by building 
> on JDK
> 1.5...
>
> Juergen
>
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: spr...@li...
> [mailto:spr...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Alef Arendsen
>   Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:32 PM
>   To: spr...@li...
>   Subject: [Springframework-developer] Changes to build.xml to run
> autobuilds build on 1.5 as well
>
>
>   If nobody objects, I'll be modifying the build file to include an extra
> property that indicates whether or not you want to build on 1.5. I want to
> have the autobuild build for both 1.5 and 1.4 but I can't get this to work
> while maintaining the build numbers. To in addition to detecting the Java
> version automatically, there will be a property you can specify when 
> issuing
> an Ant command.
>
>   regards,
>   Alef
>