Re: [stellation-res] CVS Directory Structure

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Jim Wright - IBM Research" <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [stellation-res] CVS Directory Structure


> At 12:57 PM 3/4/2003, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> >BTW I took a copy of your modified script from the attachments to
Bugzilla
> >31589 and the new properties were not obvious.
>
> They were documented in a lengthy comment block (lines 4-57); I thought
I'd
> also mentioned them in my posts announcing the patch, but didn't (just
> checked).
>
> How would you suggest making them more obvious (aside from mentioning them
> in the patch description)?
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>

The problem with your approach is that the only way to override those
properties is from the command line with -D specifications. What I have done
is to allow them to be overridden from either the command line or from
${user.home}/stellation.properties. In addition, I have defined new
variables ${core.path} and ${install.path} that simply point to the root of
our directory sub-tree for building or installing. I have also built in
standard install path defaults for Windows in %HOMEDRIVE%:\Program
Files%\Stellation to provide a default home for Windows that will be
familiar to all Windows users.

I have the build portion of build-core.xml working on Windows and expect to
have the install portion working tonight (kitchen renovations permitting). I
will then address the test script.

Incidentally I will be doing all my initial testing using Firebird since
Postgres is currently being unco-operative on my rebuilt system.

As regards comments, I will add additional comments in the script to
describe what a user should do to modify a default build/install process.

Regards

Jonathan

Regards