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

[Vouk]

Our future users are also Mac based (e.g., Astrophysics)
:-)
mav

Bertram Ludaescher wrote:

>Our "canonical user" in SPA (Matt C.) is a Mac user, but I don't know
>whether it is Mac OS X or Mac OS...
>
>I also note that many other scientists I bump into (neuroscience,
>geosciences, ecology, even computer science! ;-) use Macs these days.
>So I think the desiderate is to support all 3 worlds: Win, Linux, and
>Mac.
>
>I don't know how easy/hard it is to do cross-platform installers from
>the build.xml ...
>
>
>Bertram
>
>  
>
>>>>>>"XX" == Xiaowen Xin <xin2 at llnl.gov> writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>XX> 
>XX> Hi Matt,
>XX> I think you're correct that NSIS doesn't support installing on Mac OS.
>XX> 
>XX> Do the target scientists use Mac OS X, or are many of them still on the
>XX> earlier versions of Mac OS?
>XX> 
>XX> I don't have any experience on Mac OS; do you know what kind of package
>XX> management system it uses?
>XX> 
>XX> Since Mac OS X is a BSD with some modifications, do you think the
>XX> scientists can be expected to know how to run a shell script?  It should
>XX> be easy to distribute a shell script (like Sun does with Java) for the
>XX> Unix users.
>XX> 
>XX> As for distributing on Linux, I think it would be fine to distribute
>XX> binary and source RPMs and Debs.  They are the standard on Linux.  Also,
>XX> it would be easy to write an ant task to create an RPM.
>XX> 
>XX> 
>XX> Xiaowen
>XX> 
>XX> 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
>XX> 
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