Re: Speeding up Ant release target for modules

thanks!

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:

> One additional note, I just modified the use of <modified/> to be
> <modified update="true"/>.  This is my first time using the modified
> tag but it seems like updating the cache in this instance is the right
> thing to do, and the default is false.
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Steven Yi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is something that's been mentioned already, but
> > for ant-based NB Platform builds, I updated some module's build.xml
> > files here to only copy modified files within release/ folders.  The
> > ant XML I used was:
> >
> >     <target name="release" depends="files-init" if="has.release.dir">
> >         <mkdir dir="${cluster}"/>
> >         <copy todir="${cluster}">
> >             <fileset dir="${release.dir}">
> >                 <patternset includes="${release.files}"/>
> >                 <modified/>
> >             </fileset>
> >         </copy>
> >     </target>
> >
> >     <target name="clean" depends="projectized-common.clean">
> >         <delete file="cache.properties"/>
> >     </target>
> >
> > The addition of <modified/> does the tracking of file changes, and the
> > overriding of clean to delete cache.properties ensures that files will
> > be recopied into the cluster's build folder after a clean.
> >
> > The issue I had is that for a few of my modules, I had a large amount
> > of files in the release/ folders (e.g., a user manual module that had
> > 1000's of html and resource files, a Jython module that had the
> > expanded pythonLib that goes with jython, etc.).  Doing full builds
> > during develop was slowed down due to copying of files.  Using this
> > seems to speed things up here.
> >
> > Anyways, hope that's useful!  If anyone sees an issue with this, I'd
> > welcome any feedback.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > steven
>