Re: [buckminster-dev] CSPEC Location

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Evan,
The 'componentTypes' attribute tells Buckminster what the provider 
should expect in the components that it finds. In your case, you have 
specificed three possible types: "osgi.bundle,eclipse.feature,buckminster"

The 'osgi.bundle' component type assumes that meta-data can be found in 
files like META-INF/MANIFEST.MF, plugin.xml, or fragment.xml. The 
eclipse.feature will look for the 'eclipse.xml' file. The 'buckminster' 
type looks for the 'buckminster.cspec.

If none of these files are present in the component, a provider with 
your setting for the 'componentTypes' attribute will fail.

If you don't have any meta-data at all and if you are happy using the 
project name as the component name, then you can use

componentTypes="unknown"

How are your components structured? Do they have any meta-data that 
describes things like name, version, and dependencies? If it does, and 
if Buckminster has no component type that recognizes it, such a type is 
fairly easy to add.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren


brodericke wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just started playing around with buckminster today and I was wondering if
> someone could answer a couple questions for me.
>
> I've been trying to create a cquery and rmap for a project which lives in
> our cvs repository. Here's my provider configuration: 
>
>   <provider
>      readerType="cvs"
>      componentTypes="osgi.bundle,eclipse.feature,buckminster"
>      source="true" mutable="false">      
>       <uri format=":pserver:brodericke:*****@********:/opt/cvsroot,{0}">
>       	<bc:propertyRef key="buckminster.component" />
>       </uri>         
>   </provider>
>   
> It seems to me like I'm only able to materialize my cquery when there is a
> cspec file in the root of my project in cvs. When I take out the cspec file,
> I see errors like: 
>
> ERROR   [0001] : No suitable provider for component
> buckminster_project:buckminster was found in searchPath default
>   ERROR   [0001] : Provider
> cvs(:pserver:brodericke:*****@********:/opt/cvsroot,buckminster_project): No
> match found for component buckminster_project
>
> Is this observation correct or am I just missing something? Do I need to
> have a cspec file checked in under the root of my project in cvs? If that's
> true, is there any way to point buckminster to a cspec file that's located
> somewhere else?
>
> Thanks,
> Evan
>
>