[udig-devel] Automated Build Strategy

[Cory Horner]

Andy Czerwonka wrote:

>How do you go about creating an automated build for an RCP application?  I 
>assume you guys use CruiseControl or something similair?  How do you manage 
>dependecies given the Eclipse plugin architecture manages dependencies 
>differently that standard Java applications?  Do you use Ant?  If so, how? 
>Do you maintain two dependency structures?
>
We have cruisecontrol running an ant script 
(http://svn.geotools.org/udig/trunk/scripts/run.xml).  The ant script 
uses eclipse itself to process the dependencies in the features/plugins 
and kick out a build.

Our scripts are here:
http://svn.geotools.org/udig/trunk/scripts/

Eclipse has some documentation here:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html

Cheers,
Cory.