Re: [stellation-res] Databases and JDK's

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 21:10, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> I would like to extend the capabilities of the Ant based build, install and
> test scripts in the following ways.
> 
> 1. Install support for more than one database type.
> 2. Run test suites against more than one database type in a single run.
> 3. Run test suites using a specified JRE.
> 4. Run test suites using more than one JRE in a single test run.
> 
> To do this, I propose the following:
> 
> 1. Change stellation.properties to set a "using-database" property for each
> database to be enabled for a particular run. This would make the rdbm.xxx
> properties obselete.
> 2. Change stellation.properties to set a "using-jre" property in the same
> way as is done for databases. Also define appropriate properties for JRE
> location etc.
> 3. Ensure that build and install procedures deal with all requested JDBC
> drivers.
> 4. Modify the test scripts to loop through the test suite for each requested
> RDBMS.
> 5. Modify the test scripts to loop through the test scripts for each
> specified JRE. The loop through the JRE should be the major loop and the
> loop through the databases the minor loop.
> 
> Thoughts?

Sounds good. And it's something that we really need to do in preparation
for a real release. Go for it. Yell if you need help.

	-Mark

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