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

[Scott Marlow]

Thanks for the heads up, the -Drelease option will be helpful for TCK
testing, so thanks also for adding that option!

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:47 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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