[atf-dev] New Weekly build available with support for Mac OS X

[Robert Goodman <goodmanr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A new weekly build is available that
supports MAC OS X. This build uses a pre-release build of XulRunner 1.8.2.
The pre-release version of XulRunner 1.8.2 is not backward compatible with
previous versions XulRunner. For Win32 and Linux users, please follow the
instructions on the site for unregistering your previous version of XulRunner
and registering the new version. On Mac OS, the installer for XULRunner
in this pre-release build is broken so XULRunner has to manually installed.
Please follow the instructions on the site. To help verify the version
of XULRunner being used, ATF infrastructure will print the location where
it is loading XULRunner in the Error log (Windows>>Show View>>PDE
Runtime>>Error Log). 

The MAC OS build requires Java for Mac
OS X 10.4 Release 5 which was release on February 15, 2007. See the instructions
on the site for more details. It will not run on previous version of the
MAC OS X JVM. 

New preference page options are now
available for configuring the 3rd party components. Detail instructions
are available in the AJAX Toolkit Framework User Guide in the Eclipse Help
and simple instructions are available on the site. Only the 3rd party components
that you plan to use need to be downloaded. For example, if you only plan
to use Dojo toolkit, the other supported toolkits don't have to be downloaded.
The old method of copying the 3rd party components into the plugins is
still supported. This will show up on the preference page for configuring
3rd party components as an invalid entry until the component is copied
into the plugin. 

Support for Script.aculo.us toolkit
runtime has been added. 

The version ID of the ATF features and
plugins has changed to be "0.2.1.qualifier". This is part of
the changes to support updating over previous version and moving to use
a new automated build structure.

The team understand that builds of ATF
have been sporadic. We had some problems getting an useable build of XulRunner
and have been restructuring the Mozilla browser code to support a new automated
build of the platform specific code. In the future we will be moving to
this new automated. On Mac OS we needed a JVM that contain the support
for eclipse SWT compatibility. 

   Thanks
     Bob


Robert Goodman