[jsword-devel] Still lost in source

[Joe Walker]

Joe Walker wrote:

> DM Smith wrote:
>
>> I have a few modifications toward a solution to the download problem. 
>> The basic idea is to minimize download time by judiciously creating 
>> jar files. This will be especially meaningful in a WebStart 
>> environment where only changed jars are downloaded. If the nightly 
>> build were incremental (i.e. did not do a clean) and we only 
>> published jars that did not change, then WebStart could be used to 
>> deliver a nightly build.
>
>
> I need to check what happens, but I think in effect the nightly build 
> is not 'clean'. You are right in saying that 'clean' is in the ant 
> build nightly targets, however we also pass in 
> -Dtarget.web=/var/tomcat4/webapps/jsword so whilst the target 
> directory is cleaned, the ${target.web} isn't.


It occurred to me that this isn't the whole story. We do clean out the 
classes dir, so the jars are new, so we will always get a download. At 
least I think so. I'll check over the next few days.

Joe.