[Soot-list] Fwd: Re: Pull request for self-contained nightly build script

[Steven Arzt]

I'm wondering what the advantage of having such a script is. We already have a nightly build system in place that runs on a server and offers all JAR files for download.
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> How would this help instead of just adding one more script that we need to maintain?
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> Best regards,
> Steven
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> On Jan 1, 2015 9:17 PM, Wei Peng <pengw at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
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>> > Hi,
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>> > I have created and tested a self-contained nightly build script "nightly-self-contained" for Soot, and have sent a pull request.
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>> > https://github.com/Sable/soot/pull/320
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>> > Highlights:
>> > * Follow current "nightly" build script convention.
>> > * Create missing files/directories if they are not already existed.
>> > * Use Sable GitHub repos; remove dangling external dependencies (e.g., JustAddExtensions).
>> > * Use git for incremental update; no need to pull all repos every time.
>> > * No more "cvs" and "svn".
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>> > Simply, if you are on Bash and have "ant", "wget", "git", and "java", you can type "./nightly-self-contained" and enjoy all Soot jars and javadocs at "$HOME/autobuild/releases" when it is finished.
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>> > Wei.
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>> > Wei Peng
>> > Department of Computer and Information Science
>> > Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)
>> > pengw at iupui.edu  |  www.cs.iupui.edu/~pengw/
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