[Biojava-dev] build.xml

[Matthew Pocock]

I have agressively re-factored build.xml so that now it is at least 
readable. I am happy for tests to move into an build-tests.xml file.

Matthew

Thomas Down wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:10:13PM +0100, Matthew Pocock wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>The ant script has got realy big and complex. The options seem to be
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>>a) try to fix the urrent mess in a single file
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>>b) have one build.xml file which builds and test everything, with other 
>>files e.g. build/core.xml, build/test/xml for each logical module.
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>>I'm happy to do the file munging - please tell me which way I should go.
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>A large cause of bulkiness in this file seems to be the
>"run some subset of tests" targets, which are mostly cut-and-paste
>jobs from the original runtest target.  We have
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>   runtests
>   runmosttests
>   seqtests
>   symboltests
>   biotests
>   ontotests
>   filtertests
>   dptests
>   searchtests
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>At least a couple of these are my fault...
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>Is there any way we can neatly run subsets of tests without having
>all this cut-and-paste cruft (at least one of which won't work
>at all any more, since the ontology APIs moved...). 
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>We do need some reasonly clean way to run test subsets, beccause
>even on a fast machine, a complete test run is frustratingly
>slow when debugging something.  What about removing everything
>except `runtests' from build.xml, but adding a script which
>autogenerates a big ANT file with a target for every package.
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>    Thomas.
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