Yepp, that's true... PDE-build will be retired. Eclipse Platform plans to move to "CBI" (the Common Build Infrastructure) with the next Eclipse Platform release 4.3 (Kepler) in a few months, i.e. that will replace the old PDE build system.
CBI itself works on top of Tycho/Maven and this should make it much easier to build/package all the bundles. The best sources of information at the moment is the cbi-dev mailing list, and of course the wiki pages: http://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Platform_Build Thanks, Markus On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > On 2013-02-18 10:53, Niels Thykier wrote: > > On 2013-02-18 10:24, Thomas Koch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > > > > Hi, > > > >> I've looked into the eclipse-wtp package, learned about the jh_* > helpers for > >> eclipse and tried to apply them to the wtp-jsf plugin. Some questions: > >> > >> - The JST project comes in an SDK and non SDK version. Which one should > I > >> package? > >> > > > > Not familiar with the particular case, but I know we have a couple of > > eclipse plugin sources building both a "normal" and a "-sdk" binary. So > > possibly "both". :) > > > >> - Do you know a good tutorial on how the eclipse plugins build work? > >> > > > > I cannot remember if there is anything in the javahelper tutorial, but > > the basic flow is this. Setup[, symlink system "orbit" depends], build > > features (repeat as needed), install and clean. > > > > [...] > > > > Examples include eclipse-rse (uses orbit deps) and eclipse-mylyn (uses > > some already packaged eclipse plugins). > > > >> - I believe it should be possible to write a tool that automatically > writes > >> the debian/eclipse.features file. That means resolving the dependencies > >> between features of the package and finding the external dependency > features > >> of each feature to package. Do you agree? Do you think it'd make sense > to try > >> this? > >> > > > > It should be doable - at the very least you should be able to get a list > > of possible features to build. (pde-build has code for finding > > features). I think it could be a nice addition even if it cannot be > > used for automated building. > > It might even suggest a eclipse.environment file for when the default > > (I think "org.eclipse.*") does not suffice. > > > > [...] > >> - Has anybody tried to get patches included in eclipse? The pde-build > script > >> looks like it could use some cleanup... > >> > > > > [...] > > Hi (again), > > I just got reminded today that Eclipse is working on changing their > build system to something based on Maven (for better or for worse)[1]. > Notably, LinuxTools upstream have closed a lot of their outstanding > bugs around their build scripts as WONTFIX because of this. So it is > entirely possible that pde-build will be retired in Eclipse 4 and most > of my knowledge here is obsolete... :) > > ~Niels > > [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51225a2a.2040...@thykier.net > >
