[wildfly-dev] Trimming the fat of the build & testsuite

[Brian Stansberry]

AFAICT currently (i.e. before this change), the normal dist module build
(i.e. no -Drelease) didn't do anything different from the 'build' module
besides creating a fat server, except [1]. So I'm ok with skipping that.
I'll just change my normal

$ dist/target/wildfly-whatever-SNAPSHOT/bin/standalone.sh

to

$ build/target/wildfly-whatever-SNAPSHOT/bin/standalone.sh

[1] In full WildFly the dist module runs the maven-verifier-plugin. We'll
need to move that to 'build' as I don't want it only run when we're about
to release. I believe all the existing verifications should work just fine
from build, except for this one, which IMO should be removed anyway, as
it's not checking any contract we support:


    <file>

<location>target/${server.output.dir.prefix}-${project.version}/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/as/server/main/wildfly-server-${version.org.wildfly.core}.jar</location>
      <exists>true</exists>
    </file>

Rob -- can you confirm that JBDS doesn't really need to check the contents
of the server module any more? AIUI doing that was just a workaround in
some prior releases and isn't relevant with the latest releases.


On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Tomaž Cerar <tomaz.cerar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
>
> As initial work on trimming our IO usage by testsuite and build,
> I've send https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/pull/2880
> which changes wildfly-core to never produce "inflated" build/distro with
> jars present.
> But rather uses thin server provisioning (module.xml entries point to
> maven GAV)
>
> As part of this work, "dist" folder is now used for just that, for
> distribution and noting else.
> So unless build is invoked with -Drelease which is something that is done
> as part of release process, "dist" folder will be empty and wont produce
> anything.
>
> Sever for testing is still present in "build" directory as it always was.
>
> This was done to reduce unnecessary IO work and producing multiple server
> builds without need for them.
>
> I am sending this mail mostly as FYI that further work on this is going to
> happen, in core and in full, and such changes might clash with some
> poeple's workflows, where they are used to expect server dist to be in
> "dist" folder but it is not there yet.
>
> --
> tomaz
>
>
>
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-- 
Brian Stansberry
Manager, Senior Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
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