[stellation-res] Windows Port (Ant test script on Linux) - Status Update

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan,

Yesterday, I finished testing on Windows (local and remote tests both worked)
and moved on to Linux/PostgreSQL tests.

Unfortuately, the org.eclipse.stellation.core/test/build.xml file
has a number of issues on Linux:
* a number of targets that should run only once were running
  multiple times
* There seem to be an excess of properties (e.g. both username.postgres
   and username.firebird); my preference is to have such properties set
   via a properties file (e.g. a single 'username' property, set to 
postgres or
   firebird username as required for a given test configuration)

The org.eclipse.stellation.core/build-core.xml also had at least one issue:
* the script files (tsvc, etc), as copied into the ${build.bin} directory,
  were not being chmod'd at the correct point (_after_ the replace task
  completed).  This caused problems when the test script used
  the script files contained in the ../build/bin directory, as opposed to
  the versions in the inst.bin directory.

There may have been some other issues as well.
I've just finished running the full test battery (14 tests) using the tweaked
build-core.xml and test/build.xml scripts.  Everything worked fine.
The next step is to retest on Windows, and fix anything that I just broke.
(Also - I need to fix the build-core.xml clean-install target, since it 
quietly blows
away everything in usr/local/bin, a distinctly unfriendly act.)

Grinding away, amidst other distractions ---

Jim
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