Christian Stimming <christ...@cstimming.de> writes:
> Am Samstag, 11. August 2012, 18:23:35 schrieb Geert Janssens:
>> I suspect there's only one automated builder in existence for GnuCash on
>> Windows, and that's our own build server. So I'll focus on this one only.
>>
>> For this builder we have a set of scripts that wrap around the actual
>> install script.
>>
>> As it happens these scripts already run svn update to get the latest
>> build sources in daily_build.sh and weekly_build.sh. This scripts
>> consisting of about 5 lines of code. So theoretically the risk of
>> invalidating the build script due to the update is here as well.
>
> As the automated builder runs on Windows, there's an additional twist here
> that I haven't seen mentioned: On Windows, the OS will refuse to change a
> file
> that's currently "in use" by the current process. That is, a script file that
> runs "svn update" (or git pull) by definition is "in use", and its svn/git
> child process will be refused to change this very script file. Essentially,
> if
> the script runs an update that will change itself, the update will fail with
> some very weird error message because of this.
>
> Hence, the "invalidation" of the script file might be one issue, but
> Windows' refusal to change the currently active script file is
> another. Because of this, the main update/pull of the working copy
> needs to be somewhere else than the actual script file. At least
> that's my understanding of this.
The one that matters most, I believe, is the "gnucash.bat". Luckily
that one doesn't update frequently, so I think we can manually update
that as necessary. But yes, I do believe we have hit this issue before.
Thank you for bringing it up again so we don't collectively forget.
> Regards,
>
> Christian
-derek
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