[higgins-dev] Higgins nightly builds

[Paul Trevithick <ptrevithick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Higgins nightly builds

Component Owners,

I’ve gone through all of the sub-projects of Higgins on each of the three components pages. I have replaced every link that said “downloads” (in the Downloads column) that brought you to that stupid empty downloads page with the text “[no downloads]”. No more broken links. That’s an improvement all by itself.

But while I was at it, here is what I found along with recommendations as to what to do about it...

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Components_1.X (68 of 68 autobuilding nightly)

• Perfect! Give ourselves a pat on the back.
  

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Components_1.0 (8 of 10 autobuilding nightly). Two problems:

• .cbselector doesn’t build because we don’t yet know how to autobuild C++ files (this is okay for now). I just now added a link to the Novell DigitalMe site
• .rsse doesn’t build —Valery, is this component used in Higgins 1.0? and if not, let’s just delete the table.
  

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Components_1.1 (only 3 of 20 autobuilding nightly)

• Lots of room for improvement...
• For each row where I’ve put “[no downloads]” would the relevant component owner please email me (privately is okay) one of the following responses:
  
  1. I know how to autobuild it using our home-made build system, I just haven’t set it up yet
  2. Our home-made autobuild system can’t build this but Buckminster [1],[2] could, we just have to configure Buckminster. [It is stupid to put any more effort into our home-made build system. If it needs to be extended in any way (e.g. to add Java 1.5 support) we should NOT do it and just use Buckminster instead. We created our own build system because when we started there was no Buckminster!].
  3. Neither home-made neither Buckminster can autobuild this because non-Higgins 3rd party libraries and tools are required, it must be built on an external (non-Eclipse) site (e.g. Azigo). [Azigo is in the process of setting up an external SVN and build server for some Higgins components that are in this category].
  4. <some other response>
     

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/buckminster/doc/BuckyBook.pdf 

--Paul