[ecf-dev] Hudson/Buckminster and product-based builds

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

Wim Jongman is soon going to be contributing an ECF-based nntp provider, 
along with a full RCP Newsreader application.  It's likely that we are 
going to be building the RCP application based upon an Eclipse product 
configuration (.product file)...that will have either a list of plugins 
or a list of features, along with other metadata (e.g. operating system 
target(s), etc).

This will be the first instance of ECF's build system creating full RCP 
application from a product configuration, but probably not the last, as 
with this capability we not only can/could build TweetHub and/or other 
ECF-based RCP apps, but we could also create Equinox+ECF server 
instances using product configurations (for example, the OSGi remote 
services examples have product configurations defined for the right 
now...i.e. see products directory in the hello examples:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Getting_Started_with_ECF%27s_OSGi_Remote_Services_Implementation

So being able to build from product configuration files will be a very 
useful thing for our builder, both now (Newsreader app), and in the 
future (Equinox servers...both examples and others).

First, I should ask:  Is there new Buckminster documentation on 
supporting product-configuration-based builds?  Several months ago I 
recall some interaction about it, but I thought I would re-ask that 
question as things may have changed recently with new Buckminster releases.

I'm sure Markus and/or others will have issues and/or questions to bring 
up associated with this thread.

Thanks,

Scott