[Tinyos Core WG] TestSerial on telosB

[Philip Levis]

On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Vlado Handziski wrote:

> On 10/20/06, Phil Buonadonna <pbuonadonna at archrock.com> wrote:
> > Why are we keeping the .jar in CVS? This just complicates
> > things. A better option is to have the .jar created during
> > the RPM building step.
> >
> I disagree.  It make things a lot easier for those doing platform  
> devel.
> that don't want to worry about the java cruft. The tests should be
> self-contained.... including the java jar.  That's what it's there  
> for.
>
>
> Then the tests should be done on the RPM/binary release. The main  
> problem is that we don't have a mechanism to make sure that  
> the .jar is always in sync with the rest of the code. We are not  
> keeping the ELF files of the test apps in CVS why should we keep  
> the .jars ?
>

The evidence -- my doing the TinyOS 1.0 release, David Gay doing 1.1,  
2.0pre, and 2.0beta1, my doing 2.0beta2 -- is that this makes it  
easier. It makes it easier for people who want to check out from CVS,  
it makes it easier for people who have a JRE but not a JDK, it makes  
it easier for developers who don't want to mess with Java, and it  
makes it easier for people who want to just grab the jar (rather than  
having to extract it from an RPM).

If you don't like having a jar in there, then you can set your  
CLASSPATH to be TOSROOT/support/sdk/java rather than TOSROOT/support/ 
sdk/java/tinyos.jar.

Phil