Dear All, first of all sorry for cross-posting but I believe this topic is important for both lists of developers.
We have been fighting lately to keep GS and GT (GWC as well btw) build happily on Windows with partial success; everytime we fixed things someone committed something that broke the build again. I had a discussion with Andrea about this (he is not really a Windows guy :) ) but we actually got to the same conclusion: the build on windows breaks mostly because of wrong assumptions (i.e. linux path when looking for files), wrong handling of paths with spaces or even not properly closing files and streams. The point is that these are not Windows problems (i.e. something to blame Windows and forget about) but are real problems hidden by the fact that we build on Linux _only_. Then my point is, why we give away linux exe and bin if we don't make any effort to have GS and GT build on Win? Here is what I suggest. We ( as in GeoSolutions) will set up an official build server with Windows and dedicate it to the projects (giving everybody access to Jenkins on it). At that point all developers should make sure that they don't break the build anymore on Windows, which basically mean taking extra care when writing code and tests, which can do only good to our beloved projects! What do you think? Regards, Simone Giannecchini == GeoServer training in Milan, 6th & 7th June 2013! Visit http://geoserver.geo-solutions.it for more information. == Ing. Simone Giannecchini @simogeo Founder/Director GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
