Re: [buckminster-dev] some questions on Buckminster

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Alex Chen wrote:
> - About your answer on my third question:
> a) If one project depend on several other Eclipse projects, then it's 
> better to prepare them(binary) before kick off building? e.g. STP 
> depend on WTP, DTP etc, for headless, I don't think 
> downloading/updating them automatically in every building is good
I agree. If you have a loosely coupled relationship to those projects 
it's probably better to set up a target platform that contains all the 
needed binaries and build against that. A target like that tends to move 
much less frequently then the rest of the build. The projects where I've 
been involved have typically settled for one revision of a target 
platform such as "The Europa Fall release" or similar.

> b) On example of Buckminster building, could you give me more detail 
> on nightly of Buckminster? i.e. headless
I'm not sure what you're after here. Do you mean the actual ant-scripts 
that can be kicked off on a nightly basis?

> c) When I invoke "build.product", does it run testing too?
No, that action is just a build.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren