SOLR-17490: Check for existence of perl executable and skip if it doesnt exist

Open epugh opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-17490

Description

Make the first time developer experience better with Solr. Today, everytime someone clones Solr for the first time, especially on Windows, they get bitten by the need to install perl.. just to product "Changes.html".

Solution

Add a check for the perl executable and log a warning if it isn't there, and continue on your Gradle process...

Tests

Manual

Oct 10 '24 22:10 epugh

@patrbraun this one is for you!

Oct 10 '24 22:10 epugh

I so want this; let's just require Java! But we actually also require "npm" as well, albeit it'll get auto-downloaded. Any way, one thing at a time.

Oct 11 '24 05:10 dsmiley

@patrbraun would you mind taking another stab with the latest change?

Nov 12 '24 11:11 epugh

It's working for me now.

Nov 16 '24 05:11 patrbraun

No Changes.txt needed, this is not user facing.

Nov 16 '24 13:11 epugh