Buckminster is working pretty well for this kind of thing now. As there are good templates from a number of projects and GEF doesn't have any exotic dependencies, it might be worth giving that a go. It's basically just a matter of copying a couple of releng projects, and modifying a few files. <Evil chuckle/> (This is advice btw from someone who took four months to get his build straightened out.)
On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Ian Bull wrote: Hi everyone,
I've got a hudson job for GEF, and I'm going to see if I can get it spinning at least one of our builds (say GEF-ALL for now). If I can make progress with this, then we can evaluate if we want to use this. I have enough experience with p2/PDE Build to make this work, but I find that you end up with a variety of shell scripts especially to run your test cases. There is also the problem of 'where do you get your base Eclipse from'? (PDE Build runs as an Eclipse application, so you need an Eclipse around). I know some projects check this out of CVS, but that seems really hacky. Maybe the hudson server has a variety of Eclipses installed (different versions), I don't know.
Chris A. has offered to help me setup a Tycho build. I know many other projects have gone this way. Of course we will need source (I don't know about source features, but we need source plug-ins).
Let me talk to Chris and see if Tycho makes sense. If it turns out this was a bad idea, we can always delete the configuration and try again ;).
cheers, ian
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/20/2010 10:53 AM, Anthony Hunter wrote:
Hi Ian,
We currently have:
An overnight build automatically started when a contribution is checking
into CVS.
Monitoring CVS for changes and kicking a build: Hudson does this regardless of underlying build tech: ant, pde, maven, tycho, bucky, glue, tape, staples...
A web page to manually start a new build, with a bunch of places to
manually enter dependencies, trigger debug options, etc.
Again, this can be done in Hudson. For example, with Tycho builds you can pass in -X flag for debugging.
A web page to manually promote a build to the eclipse downloads site,
with a bunch of places to manually enter dependencies, trigger debug
options, etc.
Unavailable on build.eclipse.org due to security restrictions. Instead, you can run a crontab script (or commandline script) to effect the same promote operation.
Manually adding deps is no longer required as Tycho/Bucky can deduce these.
A new build needs to do all of these. Buckminster was supposed to
deliver this for the modeling projects, but given the hurdles EMF has
encountered, I am not so sure anymore.
As I said, Tycho doesn't do source features (only source plugins) and doesn't do product builds, but otherwise it's fast becoming a drop-in replacement for PDE.
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