[udig-devel] Automated Build Strategy

[Jesse Eichar]

The eclipse on-line guide has a good section on automated builds.  
Search for "automated build".  Or advanced PDE Build topics.

Jesse

On 3-Oct-06, at 12:38 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> 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 is mostly outdated.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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