[ome-devel] Customising OMERO client software

[josh.moore at gmx.de]

Woodbridge, Mark R writes:
 > 
 > Hi Josh,
 >  
 > > If you happen to still know, what was the problem you had 
 > > with the with the no.ice build? I just tested:
 > > 
 > > ant clean cleantools quick build dist
 > > 
 > > with no.ice=true.
 > 
 > I might be misunderstanding the no.ice setting, but in order to build
 > the OmeroImporter project in Eclipse I first need to run the withtools
 > task (i.e. java omero build dist withtools). Even with the no.ice
 > setting, the withtools task spends a long time building cpp files which
 > I don't need for OmeroImporter. But like I say, this isn't a problem
 > because it only needs to be run once.

Hmm...the no.ice parameter was introduced to prevent the Java build
from failing when the slice2java-dependent targets from failing. Looks
like C++ and Python need to get the same treatment. 

Thanks for pointing it out.
~Josh.

 > >  > I was concerned that I would be missing any  > 
 > > OMERO-specific patches though. 
 > > 
 > > Possibly. I'm attaching a patch here, which should work. 
 > > Brian, do you see any problems with this? Would Mark also 
 > > need a patch for the importer?
 > 
 > Thanks. I've checked out revision 3935 of the LOCI version of
 > bio-formats, and applied your patch. It failed to compile until I added
 > a no-op setChannelGlobalMinMax(...) to:
 > 
 > loci.formats.meta.AggregateMetadata
 > loci.formats.ome.OMEXML2003FCMetadata
 > loci.formats.ome.OMEXML200706Metadata
 > 
 > Anyway, I then made my changes, built it and replaced
 > lib/repository/bio-formats-r3935-patched.jar. It works fine so far.
 > 
 > Thanks again for your help,
 > 
 > Mark.