Sounds like better work than we usually do - bring it on ! ;)
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:05, Jeff Tulley wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am very new to the ant-dev mailing list, and to developing on the Ant
> source code base at all. I have been trying to get Ant functioning on
> Novell's NetWare OS, and found many problems doing so. Most of them have
> to do with the fact that a lot of Ant code assumes it is running in either
> a unix environment or a windows environment only.
>
> I have gone through the code and extended all such code so that it deals
> with NetWare paths correctly without breaking functionality on the other
> platforms (I have tested on Windows NT, as well as on Linux). Many times I
> was able to simply piggy-back on windows behavior, and other times I had to
> add in new code specific to NetWare's file system differences.
>
> I need to know how to go about submitting my work. I welcome any reviews
> that are necessary, realizing that this is my first submission to an
> open-source project. (Hopefully not the last!)
>
> Things I have done
>
> - extended the Ant core code to work with NetWare
>
> - verified that my changes do not break Ant on Windows NT 4.0 (Sun JVM
> 1.3)
>
> - verified that my changes do not break Ant on Linux 2.2.18 (IBM JVM
> 1.3.0)
>
> - reviewed the functionality of the tests on NetWare, either:
> - fixing bugs in my code that were exposed by the test suite OR
> - refactoring a few lines of test code to have different expectations
> on NetWare (in these cases, there were different assumptions for Unix than
> for Windows, and now there is simply a NetWare case).
>
> Things I have NOT done
>
> - created any of the NetWare equivalents to ant(.bat), antRun(.bat), or
> lcp(.bat) This task does need completed and I intend to continue on with
> doing this, but unfortunately the batch file processing on NetWare is very
> primitive. There is not even an "if" statement. Ports of other BAT or
> shell scripts from other works have typically involved a complete
> refactoring of the scripts, dumbing them down and hardcoding some stuff. I
> need to figure out how to do this properly, with a minimum of hardcoded
> items.
>
> - fixed certain "pre-existing" bugs exposed by the testsuites on NetWare,
> which had nothing to do with the code changes that I made. I did
> due-diligence in looking at each of these issues fairly in-depth before
> choosing to temporarily ignore them. I'll log them as bugs on the NetWare
> platform, and probably be the one to fix them as time permits. (and as ant
> release schedules dictate, if needs be).
>
>
>
> I also probably need to examine some of the test suite more in-depth,
> making sure that code coverage is high for the things that I changed. I
> will continue working on this. If one of the committers on this project
> will point me the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jeff Tulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Cheers,
Pete
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