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Replacement for Buckminster in 2.9? [message #1716896]

Tue, 08 December 2015 22:24

Larry LeBron

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I am relatively new to XText and had been using Buckminster to create headless builds and p2 repositories.

I see that in 2.9, there is no option to create an SDK feature project, nor is there an obvious way to build with Buckminster.

It looks like Maven and Gradle replaced this, and presumably have all the same functionality that Buckminster provided in the past.

However, I don't see any direct explanation in the XText documentation. Any pointers on how to recreate the functionality I used to have? Has someone written up a brief tutorial on this?

Thanks very much!

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Re: Replacement for Buckminster in 2.9? [message #1716897 is a reply to message #1716896]

Tue, 08 December 2015 22:26

Larry LeBron

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Of course I found this as soon as I posted: https://eclipse.org/Xtext/documentation/350_continuous_integration.html

I'll work through this now. Hopefully it answers all questions... ? Smile

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Re: Replacement for Buckminster in 2.9? [message #1716898 is a reply to message #1716897]

Tue, 08 December 2015 22:35

Larry LeBron

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Ok, that did not quite address my question. So, what is the new best practice for releasing a p2 of my DSL which another user can install in eclipse? Thanks!

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Re: Replacement for Buckminster in 2.9? [message #1716924 is a reply to message #1716898]

Wed, 09 December 2015 05:44

Christian Dietrich

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Id go with maven tycho

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Re: Replacement for Buckminster in 2.9? [message #1716925 is a reply to message #1716924]

Wed, 09 December 2015 05:47

Christian Dietrich

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Have a look at https://github.com/cdietrich/xtext-maven-example (the sdk and p2repo and maybe the product project) note project is not ported to 2.9 yet

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Re: Replacement for Buckminster in 2.9? [message #1716934 is a reply to message #1716925]

Wed, 09 December 2015 06:42

Larry LeBron

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Thanks for the pointer. I'll see if I can get this working on my end.

So, is this still functionality which must be hand-crafted, then? Any plans for a Maven build wizard down the line?

Would you recommend initializing my XText project with Maven as the preferred build system vs Gradle, then? I noticed that a Gradle-initialized project still utilizes some Maven tycho for building since the Gradle integration isn't comprehensive.

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Re: Replacement for Buckminster in 2.9? [message #1716939 is a reply to message #1716934]

Wed, 09 December 2015 07:01

Christian Dietrich

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i dont know. feel free to file enhancement requests. id use pure maven

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Re: Replacement for Buckminster in 2.9? [message #1716946 is a reply to message #1716939]

Wed, 09 December 2015 08:18

Stefan Oehme

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If you think that a .feature and .repository project should be part of the wizard, feel free to open an enhancement request. We wanted to keep the number of projects down to not confuse new users. But at the same time, a project without an update site doesn't make much sense in the long run.

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