Re: [orbit-dev] building orbit bundles

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Konrath wrote on 01/25/2007 12:12:39 PM:

> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:48 -0500, Jeff McAffer wrote:
> > As a point of interest, do you see people in Eclipse who are
not
> > tagging in CVS?  All our builds are driven from map files
that contain
> > tags so all integration builds should have a corresponding set
of
> > tags. 
> 
> Yes. When I was working on packaging the CDT, they would produce builds
> with HEAD set in the map file so I couldn't reproduce those builds.
I
> haven't been involved with the CDT for a little while so they may
have
> fixed that problem by now. I'm not sure about other projects because
we
> are not packaging everything at eclipse.org right now.

tsk tsk.  If you find folks doing that in integration,
milestone or release builds please point it out.  Its a bad deal.

> Projects that are not hosted on eclipse.org tend
to cut releases by
> manually exporting a deployable feature. If they forget to tag the
cvs
> repo for that release, it's difficult to reproduce the build. If we
> could build from the source bundle, we would be in a better position
to
> reproduce the binary bundles, hence my request earlier in this thread.

understood

Jeff