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

[Tomaž Cerar]

> Does -Drelease just populate the dist folders or does it do anything else
as well?

-Drelease populates dist folder and also produces .zip & tar.gz "distro" of
wildfly core.

Without this flag, "dist" folder stays completely empty.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Darran Lofthouse <
darran.lofthouse at jboss.com> wrote:

> Does -Drelease just populate the dist folders or does it do anything else
> as well?
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 at 02:33 Scott Marlow <smarlow at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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