[Spread-users] [PATCH] Fix XML syntax error in build.xml Ant file

[Jonathan Stanton]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 07:56:42PM -0700, Daniel Rall wrote:
> Daniel Rall <dlr at finemaltcoding.com> writes:
> 
> > When the 3.17.0 source code tarball was rolled, the src.java.dir
> > property was changed to point from the CVS location to the source
> > tarball tree location.  This change introduced a XML syntax error,
> > making it impossible for Ant to build the Java code.  Here's the
> > output of the error:
> ...
> 
> p.s. This type of error highlights the reason why there should be a
> script which automates rolling of a tarball if the CVS layout is going
> to differ from the source tarball layout.
> 
> Shall I put together such a script?

I'd be happy to work with you on it as it would help with automating the
differences between cvs and release, however I'm not sure it would have
avoided this problem, as I did have a set of 'instructions' that I
followed, including the perl script I was sent to modify the build.xml
file so it wasn't a 'typo' by hand, but a 'automated error' :-) Once I fix
the perl script, it should generate the correct entry. 

What I think I'll conclude is that I should release an actual
spread-src-3.xxrc1.tar.gz tar ball and not just a CVS tag for release
candidate testing, so errors in the actual tarball are found prior to
release instead of afterwards. 

Jonathan
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