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

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:13 -0600, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> ----- 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.

Ok, this whole thing makes no sense to me. Please forget the things I
said above.