Re: [wtp-dev] Build changes

[Arthur Ryman <ryman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Will the new build process let us build
individual Features? We'd like to be able to update the docs and publish
them on the Eclipse Help site.

However, we also need to build docs
along with the code to ensure clean builds throughout the cycle. We can't
wait till the end to resolve problems in the doc builds.

Arthur Ryman,
IBM Software Group, Rational Division

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Lawrence Mandel/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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09/15/2005 09:33 AM

Please respond to
"General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues."

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Naci, 

>docs are not included in the current build.  

Does this mean docs will not be included in M8? 

>They will not be built seperately but included with features.  

I think it is a mistake to remove the capability to build docs separately.
Docs are typically written late in the development cycle. A separate doc
build gives us a way to update the docs after a release without updating
all of WTP (or WST, JST, or JSF). In addition, the PMC discussed this on
one of their calls (unfortunately I can't find the minutes) where it was
agreed that a separate doc build will be beneficial to WTP.

Lawrence Mandel

Software Developer
IBM Rational Software
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Naci Dai <naci.dai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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09/15/2005 12:58 AM

Please respond to
naci.dai and "General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues."

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cc	Jeffrey Liu/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, Lawrence Mandel/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject	[wtp-dev] Build changes

Committers,

In order to improve our builds, there has been some changes.  The
old 
build releng.builder is now retired. long live the releng.wtpbuilder.  
This will not have a major impact on most committers as releasing and 
maps stay the same with a few changes.  You might have noticed that
there are has been some differences.  The work is still in progress
so 
please bear with us and provide any feedback you have at:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=108186
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=108259


Here is what is different.

   * Builds are continuous, the results are uploaded to a different
     area (http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/committers).
 These
     uploads are temporary and will be kept until a build is
declared. 
     When a build is declared it will be moved to regular builds
area
     (http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads).  The
home page
     is not active but the but the trial builds can be downloaded
using
     the links in notice emails (wtp.releng mail list).
   * wtpbuilder separates build scripts removed api-checks and
     performances tests.  These will be done on declared
builds only. 
     This is work in progress.
   * wtpbuilder has the concept of a _component _and a
     _distributable_.  A _component _produces a jar from
feature
     definitions (such as jst or wst).  A distributable
is  a tested
     set of components (ı.e. wst, jst, jst.tests etc.) which
have a
     site where these reports can be reviewed and artifacts can
be
     downloaded.  Currently, only distributable is wtp.
   * docs are not included in the current build.  They will not
be
     built seperately but included with features.  Any component
which
     is not top level, must be included in a top-level feature.
     Currently wtp distributable has 8 top level features (wst,
     wst-sdk, wst.tests, wts.perf.tests and jst equivalent of
these)
     (Lawrence can we update the features so that docs get included
     with wst and jst)





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