Bug #3824
closed
Normalize the app deploy dir in build.properties
Added by Michael Daigle about 15 years ago.
Updated about 15 years ago.
Description
Per Duane Costa:
in build.properties file:
app.deploy.dir=/usr/local/devtools/jakarta-tomcat/webapps
It would be nice if this could be changed to:
app.deploy.dir=${build.tomcat.dir}/webapps
This would mean that many installations would be able to use
the default value, hence, one less property that needs to be edited
for many Metacat administrators.
My response:
The problem with 3 A is that the build.tomcat.dir is not necessarily the same as the app.deploy.dir. On knb (and other systems), we deploy to a completely different directory.
I think the build.tomcat.dir is only used to get some tomcat libraries. I have it on my list to include those libraries in metacat and remove the build.tomcat.dir property completely.
Referencing ticket 3777 which moves tomcat libs into metacat project and eliminates build.tomcat.dir from build.properties.
We used to include those libs back in the Tomcat 3 days, but took them out as
the servlet library jars changed in Tomcat 3, 4, 5, and 6. So now we use the
locally installed version of the jar that comes with Tomcat to build. We
should consider whether adding these jars to Metacat is really an advantage --
we have to have Tomcat, and we have to differentiate which version of Tomcat is
being used in order to find the right jar file for servlet support. Having
those be in Metacat may not gain us much, and we'd have to differentiate which
to use in any given build. I'd opt for improving the build logic to discover
the jar files in the locally installed Tomcat. And I agree with Duane -- it
would be nice if the default app.deploy.dir used the standard webapps location,
as that is where most people will want to put it. So, I vote for changing back
to:
app.deploy.dir=${build.tomcat.dir}/webapps
Then if we need a different location in our particular install we can change it
as needed when we build and install locally. But the default should be the
standard webapps location.
Yeah, makes sense. Unfortunately, there is another domain specific issue (to be solved) which is that the knb website build can do an automated checkout and build of metacat. That means that metacat has to be configured to build exactly for the knb site. Thus the default hard coded
/usr/local/devtools/jakarta-tomcat/webapps
Directory.
I'll look into this further for the next release.
Original Bugzilla ID was 3824
Also available in: Atom
PDF