[Pljava-dev] Working on 1.4 beta release

[Kris Jurka]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Thomas Hallgren wrote:

> Perhaps an idea would be to provide binary support for the latest, or
> the latest two? I.e. if you want older, build your own?
>

In general this is reasonable, but at the moment I think we need to 
support 8.1 because it's whats installed/supported on many linux 
distros.

>> Build java code with -g, but pljava c code without debugging symbols I
>> reckon. If someone wants to debug pljava C code, they can build it
>> themselves. :)
>>
>>
> Well, it's not so much about debugging really. It's more the information
> you can get once something is crashing. As I mentioned, the JVM prints a
> stack trace that can be very useful. Much is gained if the user who
> experiences a crash can provide the JVM dump file in a bug-report or
> attach it to a mailing list posting.

Just to clarify, the java code is never built with -g (see 
src/java/Makefile.global).  Is there any reason not to change this to 
always build with -g?

>> I have some free time over the next few weeks, so I can have a go at
>> getting the wiki docs into some kind of source control.
> Awesome.

Yes, that'd be great.  From there it's easy to publish this to 
http://pljava.projects.postgresql.org.

Kris Jurka