[kepler-dev] Re: [SDM-SPA] javadoc, junit, installer for Windows

[Xiaowen Xin]

Hi Matt,

I think you're correct that NSIS doesn't support installing on Mac OS.

Do the target scientists use Mac OS X, or are many of them still on the
earlier versions of Mac OS?

I don't have any experience on Mac OS; do you know what kind of package
management system it uses?

Since Mac OS X is a BSD with some modifications, do you think the
scientists can be expected to know how to run a shell script?  It should
be easy to distribute a shell script (like Sun does with Java) for the
Unix users.

As for distributing on Linux, I think it would be fine to distribute
binary and source RPMs and Debs.  They are the standard on Linux.  Also,
it would be easy to write an ant task to create an RPM.


Xiaowen

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 14:41, Matt Jones wrote:
> Hey Bertram,
> 
> So, NSIS looks like a nice system, but from my perusal it appears that 
> it doesn't support MacOS.  We were planning on Kepler releases on MacOS 
> as a lot of our target scientists use MacOS, especially the MacOS 
> laptops these days.  Which is another reason I like InstallAnywhereNow, 
> because it generates installers for Windows, MacOS, and linux.
> 
> BTW, I like the idea of generating the installer directly from the 
> build.xml file. I wonder if we could do that with a cross-platform 
> installer?
> 
> Matt
> 
> > Hi Xiaowen:
> > 
> > So it seems that NSIS is quite interesting then! 
> > I'm cross-posting to kepler-dev to see whether that might be an option 
> > for Kepler as well.
> > 
> > Bertram
> 
>  >>>>> "XX" == Xiaowen Xin <xin2 at llnl.gov> writes:
> XX>
> XX> Hi Bertram,
> XX> NSIS is the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.
> XX>
> XX> I mentioned it in an email dated March 15, cc'ed to sdm-dev, but I
> XX> didn't make a big deal of it then :)
> XX>
> XX> It's a GPL'ed install system analogous to InstallAnywhere or
> XX> InstallShield.  It basically helps you create an installer.
> XX>
> XX> As you might have guessed from the name, it originally came from
> XX> Nullsoft, the maker of Winamp, and it's still used to build the Winamp
> XX> installer.
> XX>
> XX> makensis.exe is the executable that creates the installer.
> XX>
> XX> I like it because it's free (open source and no license fees), and it
> XX> seems to work pretty well overall.
> XX>
> XX>
> XX> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/home/ <- their homepage
> XX> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/features/screenshots/ <- screenshots
> XX>
> XX>
> XX> Xiaowen
> XX>
> XX> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 10:46, Bertram Ludaescher wrote:
>  >> Xiaowen:
>  >>
>  >> What is NSIS? What does makensis.exe do?
>  >>
>  >> Bertram
>  >>
>  >> >>>>> "XX" == Xiaowen Xin <xin2 at llnl.gov> writes:
> XX>
> XX> Hi,
> XX> I've created a javadoc target in build.xml, which generates all the
> XX> javadoc documentation and puts it in website/documentation/javadoc.
> XX>
> XX> usage: ant docs
> XX>
> XX> I think this should help us in browsing and writing code.  There were
> XX> quite a few warnings issued by javadoc.  If your code is generating some
> XX> warnings, could you please fix them?  This javadoc target will hopefully
> XX> help us all more thoroughly document our code.
> XX>
> XX>
> XX> I've also created a junit target for ant, which will run all the junit
> XX> tests in test/junit.
> XX>
> XX> usage: ant test
> XX>
> XX> I've created one test for the StringConst class in
> XX> test/junit/org/sdm/spa/StringConstTest.java.  It programmatically
> XX> creates a workflow with a PNDirector, so it can test the fire() method.
> XX> In the future, when we add new classes to CVS, let's add a junit test
> XX> for it also.
> XX>
> XX>
> XX> Finally, I've added a target to build an installer for Windows based on
> XX> NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System).
> XX>
> XX> usage: ant nsis
> XX>
> XX> If you're on Cygwin, and you've got NSIS installed, and makensis.exe is
> XX> in your path, then that target should create a spa.exe in your
> XX> installer/ directory.  spa.exe is an executable installer for Windows.
> XX> So if any of you get a chance, please test it out =)
> XX>
> XX>
> XX> Xiaowen