[cdt-dev] CDT 1.2 Builds

["Douglas Schaefer" <dschaefe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey gang, I have my automated release engineering plugin up and running 
and have done two builds off of HEAD called 1.2.0.1 and 1.2.0.2 which 
should be identical.  The plugin uploads the build results to the 
following update site:

        http://update.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/updates/builds/1.2

I have managed to automate renumbering the versions on the plugins, 
fragments, and features in their associated xml files.  This allows you to 
use the Update Manager to upgrade your Eclipse install to get the new 
builds (and theoretically to roll back to older builds).  And that's why I 
did two builds to test that this works.

I am not committing these number changes into CVS so what you see there 
will not reflect these version numbers.  My thoughts are that this should 
be O.K. since the source feature should give you a snapshot of the source 
and you should be able to debug problems in a given build using this 
source.

Right now I am initiating the builds manually but will set up a cron job 
to do it at regular intervals.  The plugin implements the application 
extension point that will allow us to fire it up headless from the command 
line while allowing us to take advantage of several (mind you internal) 
interfaces to do things like CVS checkout, PDE xml file updates and 
invoking the build.  I'd like to check in the plugin into CVS but there is 
no rush since only people with write access to the eclipse download site 
can actually run the build.  If you are interested in seeing the source, I 
can zip it up and send it to you.  (Maybe I'll post it to the patch list 
anyway...)

Please give the update site a try and provide me with any feedback you may 
have.  I am also interested in the frequency at which you think we should 
be running the build.  My current thinking is Monday, Wednesday, and 
Friday early mornings.  I'd like to do it more than once a week but daily 
probably isn't necessary, yet.  And, of course, we can always increase the 
frequence and run the builds on demand.

Cheers,
Doug Schaefer
Senior Software Developer
IBM - Rational Software
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada