[gmf-dev] GMF build questions...

[Steven Shaw <steveshaw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rich,

I have some questions about the GMF
build that is being instrumented.

1. Is the goal to have this operational
for the M2 Eclipse 3.2 milestone?  Sept 23 (?)

2. Is the target going to be against
Eclipse 3.2 stream?  If so, should the jar be still binary compatible
with 3.1.x ?

3. Are we planning to automate the JUnit
runs with the build?  If so, will it be run against multiple platform
targets?  Looking at the GEF site, it looks like they run tests against
linux_gtk and win2k.  I'm not sure if these are automated are not
(I can find out).

4. Deployment issues: It looks like
the initial goal is to create a single jar for clients to consume.  However,
I'm assuming the Batik and Antrl plug-ins would remain separate jars?  I
think this is important because some clients may not wish to include additional
open source jars in their product for legal reasons.  Additionally
we should consider alternate deployment scenarios that may be desirable.
 

Here's some possibilities:
- Batik extension of Runtime (gmf_runtime_batik.jar
+ batik.jar)   To isolate the batik open source dependency
- RCP version of Runtime (gmf_runtime_rcp.jar)
       For clients wishing to create RCP
applications
- IDE version of Runtime    
     (gmf_runtime_ide.jar)      
 Separating out the IDE dependency
- Runtime (gmf_runtime_rcp.jar + gmf_runtime_ide.jar
+ gmf_runtime_batik.jar)
- DSL toolkit (gmf_dsl.jar + Runtime)

Thoughts?

-Steve
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