With Sai's suggestion, the instructions are even better. It should be more clear that the gfsh script is available from 2 distinct locations after building from source, and that the developer does not need to install from the distribution.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Sai Boorlagadda <[email protected]> wrote: > Karen, > > Looks good to me. > > Just a suggestion to continue with the flow of instructions, > Do we need to point user to the gfsh available in the bin folder of the > extracted binary distribution? > As we instructed about extracting the binary and add the bin directory to > the path. > > Sai > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Karen Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have again updated the build instructions, incorporating Dan's > > suggestions for > > for improvement. > > > > Note that while there is a gradlew.bat script (for a build on Windows) in > > the develop branch > > of the repository, there is *no* gradlew.bat script included with an > Apache > > Geode > > (incubating) release of the source code. This means that the build > > instructions differ > > based on where the source is acquired from. These instructions assume > > acquisition of the > > repository from the develop branch, as I think should be the case for a > > Geode developer. > > > > Please take a look and suggest further feedback. Karen > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Dan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > build depends on installDist so I think "build installDist" is > redundant. > > > It should be just > > > ./gradlew build > > > or > > > ./gradlew build -Dskip.tests=true > > > > > > > > > There is a gradlew.bat script for windows if you actually clone the > > source. > > > Should we tell people that only need to install gradle if they download > > the > > > source distribution? > > > > > > -Dan > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Karen Miller <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Check out improvements to the cwiki page on building Geode from > source > > at > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Building+and+Running+Geode+from+Source > > > > > > > > I've also refined the Geode In 5 Minutes guide found at > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Index > > > > > > > > Please consider and provide feedback. Karen > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sai Boorlagadda >
