oops, forgot to say I also:
- checked the license & notice files in the various distrs
-Marshall
On 8/8/2012 12:29 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:
> I've done the following:
>
> On Windows 7, with Microsoft visual express (free C++ environment)
>
> - downloaded the SVN tag, and the artifacts from Bhavani's people distr for
> rc6
> - compared the svn tag and the source-release - compare OK except for some
> line-endings (I'm working on Windows).
> - checked the asc tags on all files - ok
> - checked the md5 on some files - ok
>
> - checked the Release notes - found List of Issues has minor formatting error
> for the last 2 issues - not enough of an issue to block the release, but
> should
> be fixed for next release or release candidate.
>
> - ran the bin install verification - dave detector. This had several issues
> (see
> below)
> - ran build from source (without building the other dependency components
> (Xerces-C, APR, ICU, etc.) but trying to instead use the pre-built versions
> that
> come with the binary distribution) - using vcexpress - had some issues, see
> below.
> - ran the test cases built from source, against the build-from-source build -
> OK
> --- note - didn't test the integration with Java UIMA
>
> The issues I had came from not having the required build environment, which is
> Microsoft Visual C++ 2005.
> There's some information on building with vcexpress, but it didn't quite work
> for me.
>
> The README says:
>
> The following commands assume you are running from a Microsoft Visual
> Studio 2005 Command Prompt. If using MSVC Express Edition, replace the
> devenv command with vcexpress
>
> Doing this results in the vcexpress command printing a blank line, and
> completing with no message, instantly, without doing anything.
>
> The thing which works is: type vcexpress with just one argument - the
> solution
> or project name. This brings up the vcexpress GUI, which says it needs to
> "convert" the project metadata to a newer level. You need to reply OK to
> permit
> this to happen. Then, you can right-click the projects and pick build to
> build
> them.
>
> For building from source, the instructions say to build all the dependencies.
> On Windows, APR has not made a build-from-source possible using the free
> vcexpress tooling. So I can't test this (I don't have the required build
> tooling for building APR).
>
> Instead of this, I used the pre-built versions of the dependency projects from
> the uima-cpp binary distribution. This worked except for one project -
> deployCppService - because that requires a header file not available.
>
> But to make it build using the pre-built versions, I had to do an undocumented
> thing: set UIMACPP_HOME to where the binary distribution was unzipped.
>
> I think these specifics - on how to build using the "free" version of Windows
> tooling (vcexpress), should be documented better (but I don't consider it a
> reason to not release this release). I suggest documenting both in the README
> and on our UIMA Website (and having the README include a reference to the UIMA
> website location for "current" up-to-date build instructions for various
> situations.
>
> Based on this, I'm +1 for releasing.
>
> [x] +1 OK to release
>
>
> -Marshall
>
>
>
> On 8/3/2012 11:42 AM, Bhavani Iyer wrote:
>> UIMACPP Release Candidate 6 is ready for voting.
>>
>> The release build is staged at:
>> http://people.apache.org/~bhavani/uimacpp-release-candidates/2.4.0/06/
>>
>> The SVN tag is:
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimacpp/tags/uimacpp-2.4.0-rc6/
>>
>> The issues fixed are in the RELEASE_NOTES.html in the src/bin packages.
>> They can also be found here:
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+UIMA+AND+fixVersion+%3D+12319446+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC
>>
>> Please vote on release:
>>
>> [x] +1 OK to release
>> [ ] 0 Don't care
>> [ ] -1 Not OK to release, because ...
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- Bhavani
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> Bhavani S. Iyer
>> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
>> Hawthorne, NY 10532
>> Tel: 914-784-6954 T/L:8-863-6954
>> [email protected]
>>
>
