[Swift-devel] coasters paths (was Re: Coasters failing on Teraport - cant find Java?)

[Mihael Hategan]

----- Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> ----- Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > Yeah, I agree. I just takes time and iterative testing.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > 
> > I wonder if it would be useful to be able to run just bootstrap.sh in 
> > some kind of test mode (ie give it args that just verify that it can 
> > start a java service), and then run this from a script that does a 
> > globus-job-run of the script to a growing set of sites.  And add that to 
> > the build+test battery.
> 
> It can be done. But I think it's one of those things where if you^1 can't 
> figure out how to do it^2, it's likely you won't contribute much to the 
> effort of fixing it.
> 
> 1. "You" as in X.
> 2. Find the script, figure out the parameters, fake the environment, and
> globusrun it.

... and there already exist coaster tests, which would reveal issues with
bootstrap.sh (modulo actually having an extensive set of sites files), and
which I would personally be happy with for debugging.

Therefore I don't see a reason for doing it.