Where to find authoritative release of SigTest?

[Gunnar Morling]

Hi Mikhail,

Thanks for your quick reply.

> I'd recommend you to clone sources of current v4.0

Building from source is very impractical for any project seeking to
incorporate SigTest into their build.

> You probably can try to get actual binaries built by a community here

Yes, but that's a moving target really. It seems to re-build the "3.1"
version with each run, so it's nothing stable to rely on.

Can you do a release of SigTest to Maven Central? That way there will
be a proper release of a defined version of the code base, and it's
easily consumable for users (as well as the mentioned Maven plug-in
maintained by the NetBeans team).

SigTest is such a useful tool - e.g. the Bean Validation spec is using
it for checking API compliance of providers - but in its current form
it's unfortunately close to impossible to use it in a repeatable,
automated way.

Having it in Maven Central would greatly change that.

Thanks,

--Gunnar





2017-03-22 12:18 GMT+01:00 Mikhail Ershov <Mikhail.Ershov at oracle.com>:
> Hi Gunnar,
>
> I'd recommend you to clone sources of current v4.0 and build it:
>
>>hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/sigtest
>>cd sigtest/build
> edit build.properties (you have to point to java 8 at least)
>>ant
>
> Maven plugin sources are there but I'm not 100% sure that this part is in a
> good shape and actual.
>
> You probably can try to get actual binaries built by a community here
> https://adopt-openjdk.ci.cloudbees.com/job/sigtest/ but unfortunately I
> can't point to our actual binaries.
>
> Feel free to ask any questions,
>
> Mike Ershov
> SigTest developer.
>
>
> On 22.03.2017 12:59, Gunnar Morling wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for an authoritative release of the SigTest tool. More
>> specifically, what is the latest stable version and where can I
>> download it?
>>
>> [1] mentions a "3.0 Milestone Release (March 4, 2014)" but I can't
>> seem to find that. The "Released" link on the same page points to a CI
>> job which apparently re-builds version 3.1 regularly. [2] provides a
>> "3.0 dev binary bundle" from April 2013.
>>
>> Any pointers on where to find the latest stable version would be
>> highly appreciated.
>>
>> Btw. I also learned about the "sigtest-maven-plugin" maintained by the
>> NetBeans project [3], which apparently has forked the SigTest sources.
>> It'd be great to have an official release of the original project in
>> Maven Central, so that it can be consumed by this plug-in and other
>> users.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Gunnar
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/CodeTools/sigtest
>> [2] http://download.java.net/sigtest/download.html
>> [3] http://wiki.netbeans.org/SigTest
>
>