Re: Using the bin distro archive instead of the dir format distro in the itests?

[Simon Laws <si...@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, ant elder <an...@gmail.com> wrote:

> While fixing the distro's i noticed the dir and bin distro configs are
> different which made me wonder if it would be better to use the actual bin
> distro in the itests instead of the seperate dir format distro. We could
> have a seperate step in the sample itests which unzips the bin distro to a
> temp folder and the subsequent itests then use it. That way we'd be really
> testing the bin distro we want to distribute?
>
>    ...ant
>
Yeah, sounds ok to me. The unzip could be the first stage of itest/samples.
It could just unzip to itest/samples/target. Would need a sample build.xml
update but not a big deal. We could then ditch the "dir" build.

I'm also wondering whether we should ship the build.xml that runs all the
samples in root /sames dir. That was we can run the script manually or
automatically and when ites/samples unzips the build it just goes to it's
temp dir and runs it from there. The downside to this is that it's no so
easy to run from Eclipse so maybe we should hold back on this unless you
have a good idea here.

Simon