[tei-council] Guidelines Building

[Martin Holmes]

One idea occurs to me:

The Makefile could look at the VERSION file, and if it sees "alpha" or 
"beta", it could look to Jenkins for the stylesheets; otherwise it would 
(by default) use the installed package. The user could override with the 
XSL parameter if they need to (if for example they're actually working 
on the Stylesheets themselves).

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-12-19 06:59 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 19 Dec 2013, at 13:51, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think the problem (correct me if I'm wrong) is the coupling of the
>> stylesheet build with the P5 build. Jenkins always looks to the latest
>> successful build of the Stylesheets project for its XSL, but if you
>> build locally, by default you're using the Stylesheets in the installed
>> TEI Debian packages. Stylesheet development goes hand-in-hand with P5
>> development, so unless you check out the latest Stylesheets code from
>> github and build that, then point your make at the results, there's a
>> strong possibility things will fail.
>
> i think thats a bit of an exaggeration. “small” rather than “strong”.
> As it happens, Syd had to make a change, which has this unfortunate side
> effect, but that should be very rare these days (I try hard to be good about it).
>
>> Another possibility is to have the local build process point at the
>> lastSuccessfulBuild of the Stylesheets on one of the Jinks machines.
>> That would presumably work for anyone working only on the trunk in SVN
>
> true, you could make that the default in the P5 Makefile, not
> a bad idea, so that it mimics what Jenkins does.
>
> however, just tested it with
>
>   make XSL=http://bits.nsms.ox.ac.uk:8080/jenkins/job/Stylesheets/lastSuccessful/artifact/dist/xml/tei/stylesheet/
>
> and it doesn’t work:
>
> /Volumes/Repo/TEI/Sourceforge/tei-code/P5/antbuilder.xml:58: stylesheet /Volumes/Repo/TEI/Sourceforge/tei-code/P5/http:/bits.nsms.ox.ac.uk:8080/jenkins/job/Stylesheets/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/dist/xml/tei/stylesheet/odds/odd2json.xsl doesn't exist.
>
> anyone care to diagnose that?
>
> Sebastian
>
> .
>

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)