On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:41, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Jan 14, 2008, at 05:48, Sam Ruby wrote:
Also, I would be interested in installing the validator locally.
While that appears to be possible, what I really would like to do
is to keep my local installation up to date. Thoughts and pointers
on how to do that would be appreciated.
The build script downloads the source from Subversion, downloads
dependency jars from around the Web, builds the source and runs the
validator. Running the script twice in a row should always give you
the latest version.
There are three issues with keeping an installation up-to-date:
1) Self-updating of the script isn't polished. Hence, when the build
script changes, you need to run it twice: the first time updates the
build script and the second time runs the new build script.
I have fixed this. Works on Linux and Mac OS X. I have assumed Unix
os.execv() semantics. I have no idea what happens on Windows.
2) There's no automatic notification mechanism for telling an
installation to self-update. Instead, you need to stop the instance
manually and rerun the build script when you know you want to sync
with the svn repo.
This one I haven't fixed. Do you have suggestions on a notification
mechanism that would work for you?
3) The validator scrapes the spec for UI strings and, therefore,
needs a copy of the spec that is compatible with the scraper. The
spec isn't in the validator svn, though, so you need to give the
build script a file URI or an HTTP URI to a suitable copy. The live
spec isn't suitable, because it may become incompatible with the
scraper and the schema without warning. Right now, I'm hosting
snapshots of the spec and the About page says which magic URI is in
sync, but this again lacks a notification mechanism and is generally
bad. It seems like a bad idea to keep a copy of the large spec file
in the validator repo. But, then, perhaps keeping a copy of the spec
there would be the most practical thing to do after all.
This one I have fixed.
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