[Buildbot-devel] [ANN] BuildBotIcon updated with lava lamp support

[Marcus Lindblom]

Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> 
> Gavin wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Marcus Lindblom [mailto:macke-DIcC8dYblPE at public.gmane.org]
>>> Sent: Monday, 18 May 2009 1:03 AM
>>> To: buildbot-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
>>> Subject: [Buildbot-devel] [ANN] BuildBotIcon updated with lava lamp
>>> support
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've just added lava lamp support to my BuildBotIcon app.
>>>
>>> http://bitbucket.org/marcusl/buildboticon/
>> Just for the sake of testing something out in Mercurial, I added a builder
>> to test this.
> 
> Cool!! :)
> 
>> Checkout works fine, but it does fail an 'ant' build step.

[snip]

>> Would it be better to fetch this jar? Makes it hard to test otherwise,
>> especially on Linux :)
> 
> The jar is not easily fetchable (it's inside either zips or 
> installer-msi:s on phidgets.com site), so you have to edit the path to 
> suit your local system. At least AFAIK.

Wasn't that hard.

> I'll see if I can make the code not depend on it unless needed.
> See http://bitbucket.org/marcusl/buildboticon/issues/1/.
> (It's just been a while since I was working on Java/Jar packaging, and 
> I've never needed lazy jar-loading )

Trickier (if you don't know that putting jars on the classpath doesn't 
work if they're referenced in the manifest, then they'll have to be in 
the same dir). Solved.

> I should probably add some tests too. ;)

Yup. That too. :)

The phidget-test doesn't run by default, but the regular one does.

Cheers
/Marcus