Re: [tycho-user] RCP product multi-platform build relying on Tycho ?

[Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx>]

We build an izpack installer for the Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio (devstudio) product. It's a small GUI installer that performs a p2 installation to the user's disk, into a folder the specify (with default = ~/devstudio) and uses the default JDK or the one the user specifies to update the .ini file.

https://github.com/jbdevstudio/jbdevstudio-product

The product definition (not lightweight RCP but a full productized Eclipse-based IDE) is in the site/ folder; the features are all in the features/ folder. It relies on an upstream build of most of the other plugins/features/target platform, but you could avoid that by having all your dependencies in the same reactor instead. 

This is currently based on Oxygen.1a but will be updated to Oxygen.2, .3, and then Photon as they are released.

Hope that helps,

Nick

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:28 AM, cartu38 opendev <cartu38.opendev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Hello,

Thanks for sharing such pragmatic working trick.

But first guess sounds to me like a trick not THE solution. THE solution sounds to me like any other build step driven thru some common pom.xml plugin / configuration / ... usage

Any idea about ?

Eclipse PDE (even Oxygen one Thanks target components usage) is allowing such. What's tycho way ?

Any help would be more than appreciated

Br.

2017-10-27 11:26 GMT+02:00 Johan Compagner <jcompagner@xxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi,

we use an installer and we just extract a generic part from all the platforms (simple java program that extracts all the platform zips and compares what they have in common and what not)

and then we only have a "generic.zip" and a few "platform-x" zips and that is packed in the installer

and then when the installer is executed it extracts the generic part and then looks at  the platform and extracts also the platform specific part over it again

johan

On 27 October 2017 at 09:04, cartu38 opendev <cartu38.opendev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I'm building a RCP product. I've a build environment relying on Tycho which is running fine. At that time build is producing as result one deliverable per platform.

Looking in details to such deliverable I'm able to see lot of common material between each deliverable. OS dependent contribution is ~1Mo.

So I was thinking to build a single deliverable but a multi platform one.
Sounds to me old fashion PDE plus delta pack was allowing to support this kind of packaging.

What about Oxygen platform & Tycho build ? Please advice how to migrate my current successful build setup to a multi platform one.

Thanks for help !
Br,

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