Re: [dash-dev] SCM and Buckminster on Hudson

[Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx>]

> But it appears that Hudson only allows one SCM entry.

One CVS entry, sure. Or multiple SVN or Git entries. Another reason to 
abandon CVS! :)

Regarding automation and source fetching... I have done some work with 
Tycho/Maven as the build engine, supplemented by Ant to do some extra 
build magic. (Specific example is that we build some plugins/features 
for Drools to wrap the plugins/features that the Drools team does 
themselves; rather than rebuild their code, I use Ant to fetch their 
latest binary build from their Hudson job, unpack it, and have it 
available against which to compile our stuff.) Ideally they'd just 
publish a p2 repo against we could resolve the target platform, but for 
now this works just as well.) You could do the same to fetch CVS sources 
if you wanted... but really, moving to SVN or Git would be an even 
better idea. :)

Nick

> On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Nick Boldt wrote:
>
> > That's pretty much how PDE works...
> >
> > 1. Hudson checks out your code into its job workspace.
> > 2. When changes occur, it kicks a build for you.
> > 3. Then the PDE build fetches sources from map file and you end up with double the source on disk. Hella inefficient.
> >
> > Alternative approach is to have the PDE build use local sources already on disk as fetched by Hudson, rather than having the build provision the sources for you. Athena does this using the localSourceCheckoutDir variable; Bucky prolly has an analoguous approach.
> >
> > There's also the non-PDE approach using Tycho+Maven, which simply builds from the already-available sources in Hudson's workspace. Doesn't support fetching from map file, only from a branch/tag (that is, it'll build whatever Hudson's already fetched). Ideal for CVS, SVN, or Git sources.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > On 07/08/2010 02:38 PM, Miles Parker wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm wondering how people are setting up SCM WRT Buckminster.
> > >
> > > 1. As I understand things it seems like best practices with Buckminster would involve pulling everything from Version Control through Buckminster?
> > > 2. Except that the releng site, i.e. rmap, cspec etc.. obviously need to be there so they need to be bootstrapped into the Hudson workspace, presumably through Hudson SCM.
> > > 3. And, you want any changes in covered code to trigger an SCM which (I think?) means bringing all of that stuff over from SCM first.
> > >
> > > 2 and 3 sort of seem to conspire against 1, or am I missing something here.
> > >
> > > Also, I think this might have been asked before, but is there any way to view the configurations of other projects to see how they've got things setup?
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > > Miles_______________________________________________
> > > dash-dev mailing list
> > > dash-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev
> >
> > --
> > Nick Boldt :: http://nick.divbyzero.com
> > Release Engineer :: Eclipse Modeling&  Dash Athena
> > _______________________________________________
> > dash-dev mailing list
> > dash-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev
>
> _______________________________________________
> dash-dev mailing list
> dash-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev

--
Nick Boldt :: http://nick.divbyzero.com
Release Engineer :: Eclipse Modeling & Dash Athena