[wtp-releng] Batch Build questions

[David Carver <dcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was reviewing the Batch Build document and have a couple of questions:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP/Build/WTP_Batch_Build

1.  Why are we relying on Environment Variables to be set instead of 
using ANT property variables, that can be passed into the ANT build.   
Particular candidates for property files and ant properties are:

       LOCAL_BUILD_PROPERTIES_DIR to the copied properties directory
       from the last step 

       BUILD_CVS_READ_PROTOCOL = pserver 
       BUILD_CVS_READ_USER=anonymous 
       BUILD_CVS_WRITE_PROTOCOL=pserver 
       BUILD_CVS_WRITE_USER=anonymous 
       BUILD_CVS_SERVER=dev.eclipse.org 

       SKIPUSER=true 


All of the above can be specified as an ANT property and passed in when 
the ant build script is completed.

2.  Shouldn't the ANT build script automatically check out all the files 
if necessary.   As it is right now you have to do this manually outside 
of the build script.

3.  Ideally only specifying the ant build.xml command line should be 
necessary to get a build.   If we eliminate the Environement variables 
then we can use a standard property file if necessary to set these 
values....But ideally, they should be set by default, and overriden when 
necessary.

Dave