Changeset 29231 for other-projects/expeditee-release-kits

Timestamp:

2014-08-21T19:40:59+12:00 (10 years ago)

Author:

ak19

Message:

Modifying the expeditee release-kit README to take into account the latest commits

File:

• other-projects/expeditee-release-kits/README.txt (modified) (4 diffs)

other-projects/expeditee-release-kits/README.txt

@@ -9 +9 @@
 
 
-
 A. One-off steps
 
@@ -15 +14 @@
 svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/other-projects/expeditee-release-kits
 
+2. Create a snapshots\expeditee folder
 
-2. Compile up custom ant taskdefs that the release kit relies on:
 
-  pushd shared\core\ant-tasks\greenstone
-  ant
-  popd
-
-  pushd shared\core\ant-installer
-  ant
-  popd
-
-3. Create a snapshots\expeditee folder
-
-4. Create the file "snapshots\expeditee\rke-build.properties". It should contain:
-    version:v1.0
+3. Create the file "snapshots\expeditee\rke-build.properties". It should contain:
+    version:1
     projectname:Expeditee   
     <empty newline>
 
 For 64 bit linux it should contain: 
-    version:v1.0
+    version:1
     projectname:Expeditee   
     x64:true
     <empty newline>
 
+Other versions of this Readme contained variations on some of these properties:
+    - version:v1.0
+    - x64:true*
     
     
-B. Each time you want to run the release-kit:
+B. Each time you want to run the release-kit: 
+(MANUAL STEPS. A script that automates these steps follows in C)
 
 Set the environment:
@@ -53 +46 @@
     set ANT_HOME=C:\Research\apache-ant-1.8.2
     set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0
-    PATH=C:\Research\ant\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;c:\Program Files\Subversion\bin;%PATH%
+    set PATH=C:\Research\ant\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;c:\Program Files\Subversion\bin;%PATH%
 
     call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd"
@@ -77 +70 @@
     rke
 
+
+C. Automated binary generation
+The script expeditee-release-kits\create-expeditee.bat now does all the above steps. 
+To use it, 
+1. First create a custom version of rke-setup.bat.in at the same level (as "expeditee-release-kits\rke-setup.bat") and adjust its environment variable paths
+2. Put create-expeditee.bat into C:\Research\Nightly. Check that the file paths it refers to are correct.
+3. Run create-expeditee.bat
+
+    
+D. Compile up custom ant taskdefs that the release kit relies on, 
+if you ever update the ant task definitions or the ant installer code. You will need to recompile them before running the release-kit.
+    pushd shared\core\ant-tasks\greenstone
+    ant
+    popd
+
+    pushd shared\core\ant-installer
+    ant
+    popd
+