Re: [aspectj-dev] AspectJ 1.1rc1 & AJDT 1.1.1

[Wes Isberg <wes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The release is now linked off the download page.

Jim, will you do the announcement?

Wes

Adrian Colyer wrote:
> 
> So here it is... the finally final AspectJ 1.1rc1 and Eclipse AspectJ
> Development Tools v1.1.1 release.
> 
> When we ran the additional tests this morning on last nights build... they
> all failed!
> 
> First, Jim had tried to catch us out by slipping in a test that depended on
> a 1.4 API   ;-)
> (recall the outstanding test was to run ajcTests on a 1.3VM) . Once we got
> over the shock of seeing an unexpected fail and came round to realising
> why, things were going better... but then the showstopper: Turns out if you
> compile AspectJ with the SUN JDK 1.4.1 compiler, it produces an ajc that
> creates class files that will not run on a 1.1.8 JRE (class load error due
> to bad major version number). [must add that to the list of gotchas]
> 
> So we respun everything compiling with 1.3.1.07 and all tests came through
> clean again. Interesting side discovery on the 1 "expected" failure in the
> ajcTests.xml run :- this test passes with a Sun JDK 1.4.1, but fails on IBM
> JDK 1.4.0 or Sun JDK 1.3.1.07 (so I'm guessing you're on Sun JDK 1.4.1 Jim,
> which is why you don't see the fail).
> 
> All the binaries etc. are uploaded and re-tested, and I deleted the
> premature v1_1_0RC1 tag from the 13th and retagged the current v1_1_0RC1 in
> its place.  We really should be ready to release this time! :-)
> 
> Having been through the process several time in the last few days, we have
> a good check-list and routine worked out, which I will post alongside the
> build-and-test notes as soon as I get a moment. Many of the steps are now
> amenable to being automated, so post AOSD we may try to put together a
> "release.xml" Ant script that goes through the various stages, and creates
> the appropriate logs in the releases directory etc.,.If we can automate
> enough to be useful,we have a server here that we can investigate using for
> a daily-build-and-smoke test - we'll do a full CVS extract, build and test
> each night, and post the test results and binaries back to some
> "latest-build" location. (And we hope to do the same for AJDT).
> 
> Have fun!
> --Adrian.
> Adrian_Colyer@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
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