Re: [buckminster-dev] Newbie with ClearCase challenge...

[Patrik Schalin <patrik.schalin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Thomas,

Thats enough for me to go on with our quest for a better releng
implementation. I'd love to work on CC support for Buckminster but I guess
that's not up to me to decide...:-(

But becoming a Buckminster user would be a step in the right direction for
us though...

Br
Patrik


Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> 
> Hi Patrik,
> Buckminster has no support for ClearCase at present. It is designed with
> the intention to add this 
> support at some point but so far, we have prioritized CVS, SVN, and
> Perforce. Mainly because we have 
> not yet had any ClearCase users willing to contribute. I would love to see
> a ClearCase reader in 
> Buckminster.
> 
> That said, there are still ways to use Buckminster with CC. Buckminster is
> equipped with a reader 
> type named 'local' that assumes that whatever should be bound to the
> workspace has been checked out 
> already. The solution is of course a bit clunky but without a proper CC
> reader, it's the best we can do.
> 
> And yes, property expansion is definitely possible in the RMAP. Please
> consult our documentation on 
> this topic:
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/buckminster/doc/BuckyBook.pdf
> 
> If there is an interest from your company or other CC users out there who
> would be interested in 
> contributing in this area, I'd be happy to help you get started.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
> 
> 
> Patrik Schalin wrote:
>> First I would like to state my newbie status on Buckminster and I'm sorry
>> if
>> posting in the wrong forum (Could not find any "Buckminster - Users"
>> forum).
>> 
>> Looking at alternatives for a CI setup for multiple RCPs on a shared base
>> Buckminster comes out as the most obvious and mature candidate. Though
>> I'm
>> very unfamiliar with it reading about the key concepts and the strong
>> integration with PDE gives me assurance.
>> 
>> Just have one small question that will help me answer if it is worth
>> going
>> forth with some prototyping and in the long run abandon our existing ANT
>> based system...is it possible to make this work on a ClearCase env?
>> 
>> No need to set up views and stuff automagically but just being able to
>> handle resolving on views with different names. Is it possible to use
>> property expansion in the .rmap URIs e.g. env.CLEARCASEVIEW or
>> -Dclearcase.view.name=myView
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Patrik
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