Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Using map files with Subversion

[Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or use maven and join the civilized world...:)

cheers,
jesse

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jesse mcconnell
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:59, Henrik Lindberg
<henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Daniel,
> You may want to take a look at the Buckminster project (which is used by
> many projects at Eclipse to build).
> Happy to answer questions and more on the buckminster newsgroup or on IRC
> #eclipse-b3 (open channel for all build related issues).
> Regards
> Henrik Lindberg
> henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Daniel Pastore wrote:
>
> Hi Stephan,
>
> sorry for the delay to reply. Let's see:
>
>> > I thought it was used to specify different versions of plugins/features
>> > to
>> > look and checkout during the build process,
>>
>> I'm not 100% sure whether we are saying the same, so let me rephrase:
>> The map file lets you select one specific version for each feature/plugin
>> included in the build.
>
> Yes, that was what I meant. Thanks for your rephrase, it sounds much better
> than mine!
>
>>
>> > but all map files I saw point to the same tag/version/revision.
>>
>> The example at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Subversive_PDE_Fetch contains:
>>
>>
>>  feature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=SVN,tags/v20070222,https://svn-pde-build...
>>
>>  plugin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=SVN,tags/v20070222,https://svn-pde-build...
>>
>> meaning that this feature and its plugin are both checked out from the tag
>> "tags/v20070222". Of course, different plugins could be fetched from
>> different
>> tags. If specifying a tag is not sufficient for your case, you might need
>> the
>> "revision" keyword (which I haven't used - so I can't comment on that).
>
> Alright, this is the exact example of what we said above.
>
>>
>> A real world map file using SVN can be found here:
>>
>>  http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/trunk/releng/map/otdt.map?root=TOOLS_OBJECTTEAMS&view=log
>> (you might want to compare a few different versions of this map),
>> but note, that in our case omitting the tag attribute works only because
>> we use the patch from https://bugs.eclipse.org/301045
>>
>> Does any of this answer your question?
>
> Yes, parts of it, but I still don't understand how is this map file will be
> used in the build process of my project.
> When I checkout/update the code from SVN (either using PDE SVN or SVN Ant, i
> don't see a big difference for my use) I can choose from trunk or any branch
> or any tag or even any specific revision.
> So what would be the utility of this map file? (I just see it being useful
> for the Eclipse build, where it points to specific versions of each project)
>
> --
> Thanks for your attention,
>
> Daniel Pastore
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