madan chowdary wrote:
Hi all,
I am very much confused seeing some technical words like " Nightly " builds.
What exactly is nightly builds.
It normally means that a project has some automated system that runs
every day (usually during the quietest time of day for the development
computers, ie the night hours of the zone where most developers live).
A nightly build system checks out the latest source code from the
version control system, compiles it, and runs the unit tests. Assuming
this all worked, the resulting binary file(s) are then made available
for people to use.
Nightly builds are used in the jakarta-commons project, for example.
However the MyFaces project does not have any real nightly build system
set up; instead if you want the latest code then it is best for you to
download the source and build it yourself. Fortunately with Maven it is
*very* easy to build software from source. If you really want the latest
code (to see if a bug has been fixed for example) then install maven and
subversion on your machine, check out the source code and run "mvn install".
Regards,
Simon
