Re: [linuxtools-dev] Move to Tycho?

[akurtakov <akurtakov@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm all for it. This will finally allow us to make proper source releases.

Alex

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do people feel about us moving from the PDE Build-based Athena
> builder we currently use to Maven Tycho?
>
> I'm in favour of this move for a few reasons:
>
> 1) Athena is really maintained much anymore
> 2) The number of Eclipse projects using Tycho is growing and we'll be
>   able to piggy-back on that knowledge and build-up of common tools and
>   techniques
> 3) I've been struggling trying to get our Hudson jobs to work with git
>   and am having a hard time
> 4) Local Athena builds have never really worked too well and this will
>   allow for others to replicate our Hudson builds on their local boxes
>
> There are drawbacks, of course.  We'll have a learning curve with new
> build technology and there is an initial hit of downloads when building.
>
> Note that this potential move won't preclude using PDE Build nor will it
> affect how things are built and run when developing with Eclipse.
>
> I'd appreciate any and all thoughts as soon as possible.  Thanks.
>
> Andrew
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