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Posted to jmeter-dev@jakarta.apache.org by se...@apache.org on 2007/03/04 17:22:28 UTC
svn commit: r514428 - /jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/nightly.xml
Author: sebb
Date: Sun Mar 4 08:22:27 2007
New Revision: 514428
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=514428
Log:
Clarify purpose of nightly builds
Modified:
jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/nightly.xml
Modified: jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/nightly.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/nightly.xml?view=diff&rev=514428&r1=514427&r2=514428
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--- jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/nightly.xml (original)
+++ jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/nightly.xml Sun Mar 4 08:22:27 2007
@@ -17,17 +17,29 @@
-->
<document>
<properties>
- <title>Downloading nightly builds</title>
+ <title>Nightly builds for developers</title>
</properties>
<body>
-<section name="Downloading nightly builds">
+<section name="Nightly builds for developers">
<p></p>
+ <h2>What are the nightly builds?</h2>
+ <p>
+ The nightly builds are interim builds that are <b>untested and unsupported</b>.
+ <i>Use at your own risk!</i>
+ <br/>
+ These unreleased builds may not even load, may have undocumented features,
+ known defects, and any number of other issues.
+ <br/>
+ They are intended for use by developers and others wishing to help with resolving JMeter bugs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <span style="font-size : x-large"><b>These builds should not be used in production.</b></span>
+ </p>
<h2>Where are the nightly builds?</h2>
<p>There are currently no regular nightly builds - sorry.</p>
- <p>However, occasional builds are made available via the
-<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi">Binary Downloads</a>
-page - follow <b>Nightly builds</b> link.
-</p>
+ <p>However, occasional builds are made available from
+ <a href="http://people.apache.org/builds/jakarta-jmeter/nightly/">Nightly builds (use at your own risk)</a>
+ </p>
<h2>What do they consist of?</h2>
<p>
JMeter is distributed as a set of zip (or tar-gz) archive files.
@@ -35,9 +47,9 @@
The files are called:
<ul>
<li>jakarta-jmeter-{version}_bin.zip - JMeter binaries</li>
-<li>jakarta-jmeter-{version}_lib.zip - 3rd party jar files</li>
+<li>jakarta-jmeter-{version}_lib.zip - 3rd party jar files (rarely changes)</li>
<li>jakarta-jmeter-{version}_src.zip - JMeter source</li>
-<li>jakarta-jmeter-{version}_api.zip - JMeter Javadoc</li>
+<li>jakarta-jmeter-{version}_api.zip - JMeter Javadoc (if available)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Installing JMeter runtime</h2>
Download the _bin and _lib files
@@ -46,10 +58,22 @@
<br/>
The other archives are not needed to run JMeter.
+<h2>Building JMeter</h2>
+Download the _src, _bin and _lib files
+<br/>
+Unpack all the archives into the same directory structure
+<br/>
+<h2>Other jars you may need</h2>
+You may also need to download JAF/JavaMail, BeanShell, JMS and JDBC jars
+ - see <a href="usermanual/get-started.html">Getting Started</a>
</p>
<h2>Warning - please note!</h2>
<p>
- The nightly builds may or may not work properly - or at all.<br/>
+ <span style="font-size : large">
+ <b>The nightly builds may or may not work properly - or at all.</b>
+ </span>
+</p>
+<p>
If there is a problem with a particular version,
it may be worth reporting this on the JMeter-dev mailing list and/or trying again in a day or two.
</p>
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