[udig-devel] Automated Build Strategy

[Jody Garnett]

I will warn you that the PDEBuild stuff from eclipse is a bit of a mess, 
and hard to set up. There was a useful book called "building commercial 
quality plugins" that had a section on this, but now it is mostly outdated.

Jody
>> 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.
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