| Re: [linux-distros-dev] eclipse-build sub-project |
* Ben Konrath <bkonrath@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007-01-23 11:42]: > > There was some talk at the IRC meeting of making an eclipse-build > similar to the ooo-build that's in hosted at gnome.org. I let the idea > stew for a little bit and I think that it would be very beneficial. I concur. Although as [1] says, it would be nice if this project would eventually die :) . > * build technology / language to use: shell? python? something > else? What does ooo-build use? > * patch selection: do we check in all our patches and have a conf file > to select the patches we want? or another way? That could be cool. I think the conf file works okay. > * how we deal with the seamokey vs. mozilla vs. firefox dep. Something in the conf file? > * FHS compliance: Fedora/Red Hat packages need this, but is everybody > else interested in this? If not, we need the ability to turn this on > and off Yeah, since it's just a few mv's, it shouldn't be hard to turn it off. > * do we want consistent package names and contents? This would be great! > * do we want to provide official releases that we can reference as an > upstream download or just use cvs snapshots? I think we should stick with official releases. > I don't mind starting this project off by transferring the build we do > in Fedora to seed the project. But, I don't want this to become a Red > Hat only thing so I'm totally willing to compromise where necessary and > patch within the Fedora or Red Hat builds if need be. I also want > everyone to be a part of this build project so that the people who > maintain packages for any distro should feel comfortable committing to > the project. The whole point of this would be to save us all work and > let us co-maintain a set of standard Linux (maybe even Unix) Eclipse > build scripts. This sounds great, Ben. Thanks, Andrew [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Ooo-build
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