Tags, binaries and GitHub release notes for future releases?

retronym commented 5 years ago

I've created a homebrew formula that builds and installs jitwatch on Mac.

$ brew install retronym/formulas/jitwatch
$ jitwatch-headless -help
Usage: LaunchHeadless <options> <hotspot log file>
options:
-e  Show parse errors
-m  Show model
-c  Show only compiled methods in model (use with -m)
-s  Show code suggestions
-t  Show compilation timeline
-f  Write output to headless.csv
-i  Show inline failed calls
$ jitwatch

It's a bit of a hack because:

it needs to build from source
there aren't recent tags to refer to in this repository.

Would you consider using:

using tags for future releases?
including the "publish to maven central" step again in the release process (I think this was done for a few releases but hasn't been done recently)
maybe, use maven-assembly-plugin or the like to create a zip release to add to the assets of the Github releases.

chriswhocodes commented 5 years ago

Hi Jason, I can definitely start using git tags. I tried publishing to maven central a couple of times and it was almost enough to make me want to give up computing and become a potato farmer ;) I'll take a look into your 3rd suggestion too. Cheers, Chris

chriswhocodes commented 3 years ago

Hi Jason, I've made the first binary release of JITWatch here: https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/jitwatch/releases/tag/1.4.0

I'll look into creating a maven central release from this shortly.

retronym commented 3 years ago

Thanks! That's allowed me to simplify my homebrew formula for MacOS installation greatly!

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