Personally, that falls into the category of YABT. ;D On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:01 PM, David Carver wrote:
> Another option is Maven/Tycho as Nick suggested earlier. I'm starting to > become a fan boy of tycho. It has it's quirks, but the overall speed > improvements I'm seeing are making me a convert. > > You can also do product based builds with it as well. > > > Dave > > On 06/01/2010 09:56 AM, Miles Parker wrote: >> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> Nick Boldt :: http://nick.divbyzero.com >>> Release Engineer :: Eclipse Modeling& Dash Athena >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dash-dev mailing list >>> dash-dev@eclipse.org >>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dash-dev mailing list >> dash-dev@eclipse.org >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dash-dev mailing list > dash-dev@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev _______________________________________________ dash-dev mailing list dash-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev
