Hi,
I forgot yesterday to follow up on this a little bit.
I did some further tests and have figured out that ant doesn't do a bad
job here.
I added targets for creating a zip, tar.gz and tar.bz2 and tested them
independently. I did the same test native with zip and tar (on a MacOS
system of course) on a directory aoo3.4 containing the relevant files
(unzipped the ant created zip file ;-))
Time native:
aoo-3.4.zip -> 2min 5sec
aoo-3.4.tar.gz -> 4min 17sec
aoo-3.4.tar.bz2 -> 9min 20sec
Time with ant:
aoo-3.4.zip -> 2min 46sec
aoo-3.4.tar.gz -> ~4min
aoo-3.4.tar.bz2 -> ~10min
All 3 output files together with ant takes 14min 28sec
The ant script creates one tar and used it for both zip files.
Probably the time will be varying on the different platforms but the
difference is not huge and I will continue with the ant approach. I have
to do a little bit more minor things.
File sizes by the way are:
aoo-3.4.zip -> ~382 MB
aoo-3.4.tar.gz -> ~330MB
aoo-3.4.tar.bz2 -> ~260MB
I can probably add some signing targets to automate some more things...
I have to read the docu for managing releases again.
Juergen
On 2/7/12 9:34 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
On 2/6/12 7:22 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
2012/2/6 Jürgen Schmidt<jogischm...@googlemail.com>:
Hi,
I am currently work on a script to package a source release zip, tar.gz
file.
The idea is to do it later as part of our build bot builds and without
copying files into a tmp directory or so to reflect the final directory
structure.
At the moment I am playing with an ant script that allows me to zip the
necessary directories with an exclude list and to prefix everything
with a
configurable directory name (e.g aoo-3.4). And it allows me to copy some
files like the main/NOTICE file into the new root directory.
Is this able to ignore all the hidden .svn folders?
yes
The structure can look like
aoo-3.4/NOTICE
aoo-3.4/README
aoo-3.4/LICNESE
aoo-3.4/...
aoo-3.4/main/...
aoo-3.4/extras/...
aoo-3.4/ext_libraries/...
The nice thing with ant is that I can easy convert a generated zip
file into
a tar.gz file. But ok that takes some time where as creating the zip
file
was quite fast.
Does anybody has a better idea how to do that without copying all the
files
in a final directory structure or checking out the files into a target
directory for example aoo3.4.
"svn export" will bring down the files without the .svn tracking
folders. But that is still a separate download.
I wonder if ant is jut calling java.io.zip stuff to do the archiving?
If so, it might be a lot faster to call a native zip utility.
I don't know but creating the zip file only was ok (2 minutes and 46
seconds). The conversion of the zip into tar.gz was incredible slow.
It's no option.
zipping the unpacked aoo-3.4 directory again takes ~2 minutes. But here
we need have to export the sources again in the final directory or copy
everything first into the final directory structure.
I will do some further test creating tar.gz, tar.bz2 directly. If it's
comparable with creating the zip I would say ant is fine for creating
the src releases. We can simply add a further target for the build bots.
Question: if we do ZIP on Windows, will it preserve the executable
bits on files? If not, maybe we want to create the source package
only from the Linux buildbot and never on the others.
I have to check it, don't know for sure. But I would say that creating
the src release on Linux should be enough.
Juergen
