Re: [m2t-dev] Xpand / MWE M3 Planning

[Achim Demelt <a.demelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comments below.

On Friday 02 October 2009 09:30:58 Sebastian Zarnekow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please see below.
> 
> On 02.10.2009, at 09:23, Achim Demelt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'll be traveling on Monday evening, so I won't be able to attend.
> > Here's the
> > status on my issues:
> >
> > * Incremental generation is committed. I also included it in the
> > build, but
> > since Sebastian moved the issue to M3, this may have been reverted.
> > I am not
> > aware of this and I don't have any hard feelings about it ;-)
> 
> The ticket was still open and I had no time to test it so I guessed it
> was intentional that is was not marked as fixed before.
> Feel free to close it as you like, incremental generation should be
> available in M2.

I'm fine with advertising it for M3 because it clearly lacks documentation at 
the moment, so I see no way anyone would be able to make use of the feature in 
M2, although, technically, it is included.

> 
> > * Documentation is missing. I will try to work on this on my office
> > Fridays.
> > I'm pretty much bound in a time-consuming project in Frankfurt at
> > the moment.
> > * Tests run locally, but not on Hudson/Athena. This is due to the
> > fact that
> > the workflow reads *and writes* files using a relative path. Since
> > Athena
> > executes the tests from a different base location than Unit tests
> > from the
> > workspace, I see no easy way to reconcile the two scenarios.
> 
> Tests have been fixed and have been running fine on hudson for a
> couple of days now.
> 

Cool, thanks! I'll take a look at what you had to change in order to 
accomplish this. It seems I can never get my head around this weird PDE/Build 
and Athena setup...


Cheers,
 Achim

> Regards,
> Sebastian
> 
> > * I therefore sketched a Buckminster-based build for Xpand and I was
> > able to
> > build the incremental generation feature and run the tests
> > successfully with
> > this solution. There's still some work to do, but I will work on the
> > documentation first. Moreover, AFAIK there's no way with Buckminster
> > to
> > include source bundles in the SDK feature. Mind you, Bucky is
> > capable of
> > *building* source features and provide them in the resulting p2
> > repo, but it's
> > not yet possible to *include* that generated source feature in another
> > feature. It may be worth filing an enhancement request if this is
> > desired.
> > * There was not time for chatting with Andre about the impact of the
> > incremental generation feature on the backend rewrite. Andre, I
> > think you'll
> > get the idea from looking at the IncrementalGenerationCallback class
> > (in the
> > o.e.xpand.incremental bundle) and the
> > o.e.xtend.expression.VetoableCallback
> > interface. If you have any questions, drop me a line.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Achim
> >
> > On Thursday 01 October 2009 12:14:34 Sven Efftinge wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> The M2 builds have been successfully promoted based on the new Athena
> >> build infrastructure. Thank you Nick and Dennis.
> >> Note that we do no longer merge into the project's updatesites but
> >> have a separate one for each component. That means that the URLs have
> >> changed.
> >> They are now :
> >>  - http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/xpand/updates/milestones/
> >>  - http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/xpand/updates/interim/
> >> and
> >>  - http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/mwe/updates/milestones/
> >>  - http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/mwe/updates/interim/
> >>
> >> The project plans are online :
> >>  -
> >> http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=modeling.m2t.
> >>xp and -
> >> http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=modeling.emft
> >>.m we
> >>
> >> and I've included a google calendar on our meetings page.
> >>  - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Xpand/Meetings
> >>
> >> The next meeting is scheduled for next Monday 21:00 (CEST). It is
> >> planned to be done via skype (skypename : svenefftinge).
> >> I hope you can make it.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Sven
> >>
> >>
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