Adjust scripts, add script to build without the build number plug-in

Author: szarnyasg

README.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Graph processing is of increasing interest for many scientific areas and revenue
 
 Want to know more about Graphalytics? Read [our VLDB paper](https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p1317-iosup.pdf) and the [specification](https://github.com/ldbc/ldbc_graphalytics_docs).
 
-### Build & Run your first benchmark
+### Build & run your first benchmark
 
 The Graphalytics provides platform drivers for the state-of-the-arts graph processing platforms. To start your first benchmark with Graphalytics, we recommend using our reference implementations:
 [GraphBLAS](https://github.com/ldbc/ldbc_graphalytics_platforms_graphblas) and
@@ -24,7 +24,17 @@ Our datasets are hosted publicly – see the [Graphalytics website](https://ldbc
 
 LDBC Graphalytics hosts competitions for graph processing platforms. Are you interested in the state-of-the-art performance? To participate, reach out to Gabor Szarnyas and David Puroja. Our email addresses are under `[email protected]`.
 
-### Deploying Maven Artifacts
+### Building the project
+
+The project uses the [Build Number Maven plug-in](https://www.mojohaus.org/buildnumber-maven-plugin/) to ensure reproducibility. Hence, builds fail if the local Git repository contains uncommitted changes.
+
+To build & install locally regardless (for testing), run:
+
+```bash
+scripts/install-local.sh
+```
+
+### Deploying Maven artifacts
 
 We use a manual process for deploying Maven artifacts for the Graphalytics framework.
 
@@ -33,7 +43,7 @@ We use a manual process for deploying Maven artifacts for the Graphalytics frame
 2. In the driver repository, run:
 
     ```bash
-    ./package-mvn-artifacts.sh
+    scripts/package-mvn-artifacts.sh
     ```
 
 3. Go to the `graphalytics-mvn` directory, check whether the JAR files are correct.

scripts/install-local.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Copyright 2015 - 2017 Atlarge Research Team,
+# operating at Technische Universiteit Delft
+# and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+set -eu
+set -o pipefail
+
+cd "$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
+cd ..
+
+mvn clean install -Dmaven.buildNumber.doCheck=false

package-mvn-artifacts.sh renamed to scripts/package-mvn-artifacts.sh

@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-
 set -eu
 set -o pipefail
 
 cd "$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
+cd ..
 
 git clean -xdf .
 mvn clean deploy $@