UMSBuilderV2: build any UMS branch

[Wolfgan]

Question: the packing of the installer (.exe) file seems to take a lot of time and resources. Is there any way to just end the process on generating UMS.jar?

This has always been one of my pet peeves with building PMS/UMS, that there's no 'jar' target in pom.xml, tho obviously it hasn't bothered me enough to do anything about it .

Not an expert whatsoever with makefiles, but quickly looking at latest POM.XML (https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... 71/pom.xml) I noticed there's a profile for "windows-jar" (line 1595). Is that profile one we can use / slightly modify to get just UMS.jar?

Question: the packing of the installer (.exe) file seems to take a lot of time and My own hacky solution is to just press CTRL-C and abort the build when the process enters the nsis phase, it doesn't harm anything.

EDIT: Feels like deja vu

CTRL-C rules, thanks!

[Wolfgan]

I was trying to compile a test branch and found out that UMSbuilder aborts with an error.

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Your branch and 'origin/webdownload' have diverged,
and have 12 and 150 different commits each, respectively.
  (use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours)
fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.

Error: pull failed

I'm not well versed on github and this script, is there anything that I can do manually to get the branch synched again for UMSbuilder?
Thx in advance, Wolf

[infidel]

is there anything that I can do manually to get the branch synched again for UMSbuilder?

Easiest is to delete the existing branch and start over, i.e. in a console with git in your path:

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git branch -D webdownload

[Wolfgan]

It worked. Thanks a lot @infidel!

[Sami32]

Hello,

+1 Thank you for your very useful and easy to use script

I would like use your buildv2.bat to make a build of UMS 6.0.0 and try different commits to find the culprit.
But i don't want any update, so since your script is difficult to understand for me, how do i need to proceed to modify you file for my needs ?

Regards

[infidel]

I would like use your buildv2.bat to make a build of UMS 6.0.0 and try different commits to find the culprit.

Double-click buildv2.bat and follow the menus, in the second menu choose 6 ('Specify a commit or tag') and in the following menu enter at least the first 7 characters of the commit #, for example 1338a57.

If you want to quickly test different commits without building the whole UMS package each time, I recommend using a quick-compile setup. It can coexist with your default UMS installation and won't interfere with it at all. .

[Sami32]

Thank you very much for your help

I just experimented to finally understand how to use it, and now that i just read your answer everything make sens
I guess we cannot build with 2 or more commits/PR at the same time ? i didn't tried yet.

I really love your script, without full understanding it though

[Sami32]

@infidel i will need your advise.

I needed to increase heap space so i modified my mvn.bat file and everything was fine, but some comments on Internet say that it's better to modify the script and not mvn.bat.

So my question is: what is the more correct way to do that, modify your script or mvn.bat file ?

[Sami32]

Maybe the Git for Windows download link should be replaced by this one https://git-scm.com/download/win, as it offer 64-bit and portable version as well.

[infidel]

Maybe the Git for Windows download link should be replaced by this one https://git-scm.com/download/win, as it offer 64-bit and portable version as well.

Thx for the suggestion, @Sami32, but I think I prefer the "official front page" link, so users can see/read about what we're asking them to install, then they can go to the download section if they want .