Nightly build optional.jar

[Conor MacNeill <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au>]

As some of you may realize the automated nightly builds do not, in general,
include many of the optional tasks. This is because the necessary support
jars are not available on the box on which the nightly build is performed.

To alleviate this, I will be uploading a more complete version of the
optional.jar at somewhat irregular intervals into the nightly build area.
In general you should be able to use this jar in place of the one generated
automatically. There may be occasions where the two are out of sync but I
feel this should be rare.

You can access the first of these from here
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/ant/nightly/optional/

I have attempted to build the VA tasks in this version using a set of stub
classes I have created. I would be grateful if a VA user (Wolf ?, Christoph
?) would check out whether these are OK. If not, I'll have to leave them
out in future. I may try the same for the starteam tasks later if these are
OK.

Conor

Re: Nightly build optional.jar

[Jon Stevens <jo...@latchkey.com>]

on 3/22/01 2:03 AM, "Conor MacNeill" <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au> wrote:

> As some of you may realize the automated nightly builds do not, in general,
> include many of the optional tasks. This is because the necessary support
> jars are not available on the box on which the nightly build is performed.
> 
> To alleviate this, I will be uploading a more complete version of the
> optional.jar at somewhat irregular intervals into the nightly build area.
> In general you should be able to use this jar in place of the one generated
> automatically. There may be occasions where the two are out of sync but I
> feel this should be rare.
> 
> You can access the first of these from here
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/ant/nightly/optional/
> 
> I have attempted to build the VA tasks in this version using a set of stub
> classes I have created. I would be grateful if a VA user (Wolf ?, Christoph
> ?) would check out whether these are OK. If not, I'll have to leave them
> out in future. I may try the same for the starteam tasks later if these are
> OK.
> 
> Conor

FYI, I'm working on a more centralized system that will allow easy script
execution of nightly build tasks...you can see the start of my work here:

<http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/scripts/>

It is far from complete and is definitely KISS based, but it is a start...

Also, please don't modify the files as they are not in CVS yet. :-(

thanks,

-jon

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