Where to find authoritative release of SigTest?

[Gunnar Morling]

Hi Martijn,

Thanks for chiming in.

The CI job is cool, but it's not a good source for obtaining a stable
artifact. While it seems to re-build the same tag again and again, the
produced artifact may change over time. Let's say Java on that CI
server gets updated, then the produced bytecode may be a tad
different. I.e. different people may end up with up with different
versions of "SigTest 3.1", making it very hard to analyse any
problems.

Taking an artifact from such rather volatile location generally isn't
great for a repeatable build of downstream consumers nor is it
something I'd like to recommend to users of the Bean Validation TCK
(which is where we are using it for).

For consumers such as Bean Validation it'd be great if that 3.1
release could be deployed to Maven Central. Then we had one canonical
version of it which we can consume it in a repeatable way using
standard build procedures.

Cheers,

--Gunnar



2017-03-22 16:01 GMT+01:00 Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> We (https://adopt-openjdk.ci.cloudbees.com/job/sigtest/) is
> deliberately building the latest stable (3.1) binary.  Happy to add
> another job to build and produce a nightly build based on the latest
> source if that helps?
>
> CCing in the adoption-discuss list as that's where Mani and other
> folks who manage that discuss these things.
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> On 22 March 2017 at 11:30, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>