Re: [basex-talk] BaseX 7.0.1: Release early, release often..

-- Jens Erat [phone]: tel:+49-151-56961126 [mail]: mailto:email@jenserat.de [jabber]: xmpp:jabber@jenserat.de [web]: http://www.jenserat.de PGP: 350E D9B6 9ADC 2DED F5F2 8549 CBC2 613C D745 722B Am 25.10.2011 um 14:44 schrieb Christian Grün: > Ralf, > thanks for the proposal - nitpicks are welcome as well ;) Before > applying the changes, I'd like to have some feedback from Mac users, > though.. Did someone try the alternative script? > > Christian > ___________________________ > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ralf Jung ralfjung-e@gmx.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> thanks a lot for this, the recent optimizations are really appreciated :D >> >> Just one minor nitpick is left, from my side... if I create a symlink to one >> of the scripts in bin/, it stops to work. This is caused by the script looking >> for its class files in the folder the script is in, without taking symlinks >> into account. It can be fixed by replacing the PWD= line in each script with >> the following >> PWD="$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")" >> >> However, the -e option of readlink is a GNU extension, so non-Linux UNIXes >> (most notably Mac OS) will probably not support that option. If you want to >> support those OSes, it gets a bit more complicated, one could do something >> like this (which I did not test): >> >> if readlink -e . &> /dev/null; then >> # readlink supports -e, use it >> PWD="$(dirname "$(readlink -e "$0")")" >> else >> # readlink does not support -e (e.g. Mac OS) >> # do not support being called through symlinks >> PWD="$(dirname "$0")" >> fi >> >> With some shell magic it might also be possible to follow symlinks on Mac, but >> honestly I don't care enough about Mac to look into that ;-) . This keeps the >> status quo on Mac (and others), and makes things better on Linux. >> >> Kind regards, >> Ralf >> >> On Sunday 23 October 2011 21:48:03 Christian Grün wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> we are glad to announce BaseX 7.0.1, which is basically the result of >>> your initial feedback on 7.0. Those are the most important changes: >>> >>> DISTRIBUTIONS: >>> - Windows installer was updated to support latest features >>> - ZIP file was updated (initial config & directories added) >>> - Short directory names are chosen if config file resides in app.dir. >>> - Start scripts have been improved >>> >>> XQUERY: >>> - much faster execution of count() when applied to opened databases >>> >>> SERVER (http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server): >>> - Flag -c connects to an existing database server >>> - Flag -s specifies a port for stopping the HTTP server (Jetty) >>> - Flag -S starts the HTTP server as a service >>> - running write operations will be completed before server is stopped >>> >>> API: >>> - Ruby, Python, PHP, Java: clients updated >>> >>> Please check out the well-known links: >>> >>> - Homepage: http://basex.org/ >>> - Documentation: http://docs.basex.org/ >>> - Snapshots: http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ >>> - Sources: https://github.com/BaseXdb >>> >>> Enjoy the update! >>> >>> Christian >>> BaseX Team >>> _______________________________________________ >>> BaseX-Talk mailing list >>> BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de >>> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >> _______________________________________________ >> BaseX-Talk mailing list >> BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de >> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >> > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk