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Re: [ecf-dev] ECF build v2 -- Build easier
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Hey Ted,
I think your posting about ECF's build needs and infrastructure was
perfect for this list. Thanks for doing it. What I would like to
prevent on this list is potentially long discussions about individual
technologies, or 'premature detail' about merits/demerits of various
build systems :).
So please (everyone) continue to post here about ECF's build needs (like
Teds posting), as well as thoughts/ideas about technologies.
Thanks,
Scott
Ted Kubaska wrote:
Oh, I just saw Scott's message about discussing elsewhere. Sorry. I'll
post off this list in the future on this issue.
-ted
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Ted Kubaska<ted.kubaska@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I agree with Scott ... it's always a bunch of work no matter what
technology one uses.
I would like to use a build technology that others in Eclipse have
used successfully so that we can share problems and solutions.
Currently, we maintain our own build machine at OSU. Oregon State has
been very helpful and supportive. They host our hw for us, which is
excellent. But we have to use our own donated hardware. And getting hw
that is strong enough to do builds and testing is difficult. OSU has
told us that we need at least a dual-core P4. I spent some time last
week on a donated 600MHz P3, which we are grateful to have, but
unfortunately it does not meet our needs.
Currently we are using Cruisecontrol/Ant which although working, is
showing its age. Updating the build configuration involves careful
editing of ant and bash scripts which is tedious and error-prone.
We need IMO a build system that lets us
1. build automatically on a CVS checkin
2. build on demand
3. build daily whether or not there are CVS updates
4. optionally runs tests on a build
5. sends out email notifications on success/failure and makes logs
available to members of the list
6 . makes a P2 repository
7. optionally signs jars with the Eclipse certificate
8. deploys zips (we need control of the zip name) to our own website
and to dev and deploys a P2 repo.
9. update the build configuration easily
10. and there are more than one build ... we build from different
branches in our CVS repository for different deployments. We also
build from different CVS repositories. We have a CVS repository
maintained at OSU for plugins still in develoment that have not yet
gone through IP.
Whether this is Maven or Hudson or something else does not matter. But
whatever we use is a big commitment on our part. It takes a lot of
time and effort to set it up and so we don't want to start down a path
that we later find out is not the way to go.
-ted
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Scott Lewis<slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Arvind,
Arvind Gupta wrote:
Hi
Have we thought about maven?
(Scott speaking for himself) Yes sure, I've thought of Maven. I'm
personally not convinced it's the way to go, however. My previous
experiences with doing OSG-bundle build/deploy with Maven were less than
optimal. I understand that Maven's OSGi support has probably come a long
way, but frankly it's been a long time since I've worked with it very much
myself...and I know exactly nothing about how/whether it creates/edits p2
repos, etc (which is where we will want to go).
Also, there is (and should be I think) some momentum here for working with
Eclipse Foundation technologies and projects...e.g: Equinox, PDE, PDE
build, Buckminster, p2, and ECF (!), EMF/Nick/Denis/Build Harder effort...in
the name of cross-project collaboration and cooperatively sharing build
infrastructure (my personal dream :).
But as with most things in ECF, the 'decision' about what technologies to
use (to build ECF) is mostly going to be based upon who among us is willing
and able to put in the energy to make it a reality. So if you have an idea
about a build technology to use (anything we can actually get our hands
on/use for an open source project), please bring it up on this list...or
even better take the ECF projects/features and get a build running :).
With the build system, I would love to have a single technology solution
result in dramatically less work on the ECF build/deploy
infrastructure...but frankly I don't ever expect this to happen...and I'm
somewhat suspicious of 'silver bullet' arguments (just use this tech and all
build/deploy work will magically disappear).
Rather I expect that there will continue to be significant work in
building/deploying ECF (whether that work is development of Buckminster
modules/extensions, ant scripts, OS shell scripts, maven configuration,
Hudson config, ECF features refactoring, etc). Of course I would like to
minimize this work with good technologies, and I would also like to spread
it around among ECF committers and contributors as much as possible...just
so it doesn't overload or burnout anyone.
Scott
-arvind
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Scott Lewis
<slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
In broad strokes, we need to:
1) Add bundle signing (for dev.eclipse.org
<http://dev.eclipse.org> build)
2) Setup/refactor the features so that we can build
a) weekly platform integration builds (i.e. filetransfer and
ECF core)
b) auto, daily, integration and release builds (on-demand
for release...others can be automated)
3) Add a builder for the features/bundles at OSU OSL
(including JMS/ActiveMQ, Yahoo provider, TweetHub (product),
and perhaps other things...e.g. SOC student work)
4) Add automated junit testing
5) Add support for Markus' work on distributing testing framework
6+) The million other things that have to be done for 'build
system care and feeding' :)
7) The other things that I've forgotten
Before we hastily move to Buckminster, please note that the Athena
common build system supports most of these things. I'm going to CC
Nick Boldt to give some input. In PDE, we recently setup a build
for some incubator code using Athena and it was easy.
Cheers,
-- Chris Aniszczyk | EclipseSource Austin | +1 860 839 2465
http://twitter.com/eclipsesource | http://twitter.com/caniszczyk
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