Re: [dash-dev] Re: Athena and RCP

[Miles Parker <milesparker@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've had the same question / issue. What I've discovered is that PDE build is so (oddly) orthogonal to feature / plugin build that they almost feel disconnected. What actually needs to change I think is the PDE infrastructure so that it more closely aligns with the plugin / feature build approach. For example, it's still not clear to me why instead of the .product and related stuff, products aren't simply setup as projects with product spcific meta-data in say a product.xml file. And I also discovered that even with feature based support, it doesn't really work that way when you get down to cross-platform deployment. Then you're having to deal with all of these individual plugins.

People have suggested that Buckminster might be a way to handle both cases seamlessly but I personally haven't had more time to devote to building infrastructure so I'm down to doing my product builds manually on my development machine...

On May 28, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Nick Boldt wrote:

> Building RCP products is out of scope for Athena - it's only meant for building *projects*.
> 
> That said it's simply a wrapper for PDE so if you can do products w/ PDE you can probably do them w/ Athena too.
> 
> One thing you might look at for product builds is Tycho/Maven3:
> 
> http://software.2206966.n2.nabble.com/Multi-platform-product-build-td3651509.html
> 
> Using Tycho, Maven can read manifest.mf and feature.xml files to generate the target platform against which to build. It can produce plugin/feature jars, update sites (complete w/ p2 metadata), and - while I haven't tried it myself - products too.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On 05/28/2010 09:05 AM, Ash Maurya wrote:
>> Hello Nick -
>> 
>> I've been looking for something like Athena for a while. Does Athena work with RCP products ?
>> 
>> We had a continuous integration server going with Pluginbuilder (you might be aware of that project). But that stopped working once we moved to Eclipse 3.5 and there hasn't been much movement on that project. Am hoping Athena is the answer.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Ash
>> ---
>> Founder, WiredReach (makers of BoxCloud and CloudFire)
>> blog: http://www.ashmaurya.com
>> 
> 
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> Release Engineer :: Eclipse Modeling & Dash Athena
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