That would be great! It is such a pain to set this up every time. To make things worse, there is some manual set involved, you have to make sure certain files are in certain places.
Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: matthew.hawthorne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 14:58 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [VFS] test server > > Michael Davey wrote: > >> I fiddle with it once in a while as we'd like to use it in our product. > >> Understand that testing VFS properly is a pain as one needs to set up a > >> WWW server, FTP server, etc. > >> > > Perhaps we could investigate the possibility of having a VFS test server > > set up > > permanently - that way users could run the tests using their own builds > > against > > the test server. > > > > I guess it wouldn't have to be a powerful server. If the entire disk > > image was > > no more than 600MB, we could even burn a backup to CD and get the system > > to rebuild itself periodically to address security concerns. > > > Even an internal server that committers could test against would be a > good start, if the security issues made it impossible to host a public > server. Publicly exposing something like that for testing might be too > large of a task anyway. There are probably quite a few projects > (fileupload, net) that would benefit from it. > > The problem with these types of things is the variations in OS, FTP > servers, HTTP servers, etc. It's impossible to test all of them and > that's where the users are incredibly valuable. But, even if we could > say we're going to test with Apache 2.0 and some version of say, > wu-ftpd, we could at least have a simple setup to ensure that things work. > * > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
