In response to “it
would be better to have a good set of tools and processes that would fit in to
the way projects want to do builds and their processes, rather than the reverse”, from the CDT perspective, I don’t want to do builds at all J. My not so hidden agenda
is to get out of the releng business all together and hand over the reins to a
more central group with way more releng expertise than we have on the CDT. I’m
sure the CDT community would be happy to follow any process this group would
suggest.
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[cross-project-issues-dev] unified build process and current base builder
The topic of a unified build process is an interesting
and worthwhile one to pursue in the future. My own (quick) thoughts on it is
that it would be better to have a good set of tools and processes that would
fit in to the way projects want to do builds and their processes, rather than
the reverse ... some monolithic processes and extendable scripts that projects
would have to fit them selves in to. And, I suggest, most of these tools
and/or scripts should become like other Eclipse deliverables .. API level of
stability and support, "owned" by a responsible project, etc.,
Which
reminds me ... I know I sure enjoy using the "basebuilder" from the
Eclipse Project (we owe them a debt of gratitude ... or chocolate :)
...
but there is one timing issue we should plan for: when (or .. should I
say if ? ) there is a "final" basebuilder for the Callisto
release, when will that be available, Do other projects use it? (does
anyone not use it :) I'd just like to be sure we use "the
right" one as we near the end ... so, thought I'd ask now if
"we" (i.e. Kim and Sonia :)
should
offer a proposed plan for availability?
Thanks,
