Re: [europa-build-workshop] Model/Sample Build

[Kim Moir <Kim_Moir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Another option might be to include a
zip with examples with your article that people could use instead of including
it in a cvs repository as a project.  That way you wouldn't be responsible
for continually updating code to meet new requirements.  We used to
try to keep our build scripts in a format that would allow other teams
to use them as a templates.  We stopped doing this because it's extremely
time consuming to help multiple teams get their builds started and it took
too much time away from our other work :-)        

           
                     
                     
   
Here's a very compresensive existing article about setting about builds,
but some of the content could be refreshed to account for new functionality.
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html

Anyways, just my 2 cents. 

Kim

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Hey All, 

I drew the action item to write up a wiki page that pulls together the
best practices, a living build, and a write up, to solicit a vote:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Europa_Build_Workshop_Report#Action_Items_for_BBP
October 15 

We had originally considered using the DSDP-DD build as the model build
since they had recently, successfully used the available resources and
procedures to construct their build. 
Since then they have been busy converting their build control over to Buckminster,
so they may not be the best candidate for the Europa era best practices
model. 

So, to complete this action item I think we have three possibilities from
here: 

1) Find a different project to use as the model build
2) Wait for the DSDP folk to finish up their Buckminster work and include
that in the model description 
3) Create a new trivial Eclipse project as a sample project, construct
its build to adhere to all the best practices of the Europan era, put it
in the build stream, and write it up as the model build.

I favor option 3 since, to my eyes, it fits into the l model of Eclipse
examples and tutorials that already exist. 
It also makes the model build available for folks to download and tinker
with and it could become the blank template from which one would start
constructing their own build. 
The con is that someone has to construct this thing, keep it up to date
through Europa initially, then modify it in the future to meet any new
best practices adopted in future releases. 
In terms of downstream dependencies it might represent a small risk to
the release. 


Opinions?

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