We had an offline chat about this and are ok for now with the current itest approach of unzipping the distribution being tested.
...ant On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Raymond Feng <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > What differences do you see? AFAIK, the "dir" is just a format for the > archive. The content should be exactly the same as the unzipped result of > the zip/gz. Building zip/gz and then unzipping it is very time consuming. > > I suggest that we fix the "dir" build if there are any problems. > > Thanks, > Raymond > > *From:* ant elder <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, February 05, 2009 3:44 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Using the bin distro archive instead of the dir format distro > in the itests? > > While fixing the distro's i noticed the dir and bin distro configs are > different which made me wonder if it would be better to use the actual bin > distro in the itests instead of the seperate dir format distro. We could > have a seperate step in the sample itests which unzips the bin distro to a > temp folder and the subsequent itests then use it. That way we'd be really > testing the bin distro we want to distribute? > > ...ant >
