Re: [pde-build-dev] Buiding Update sites via headless builds.

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not aware of any particular reason
this can't be done.
I believe that org.eclipse.releng.generators.UpdateBuilder
is the class used to build the eclipse update sites, it would be referenced
from somewhere in org.eclipse.releng.eclipsebuilder.

If we were going to add site.xml generation
to pde.build, this UpdateBuilder is probably the best source for the code.

Your build process seems quite similar
to what is used to build eclipse itself.  I would suggest getting
org.eclipse.releng.eclipsebuilder (and perhaps also org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder)
Look at the buildAll.xml which contains
a buildUpdateSite target.  It calls the buildUpdateJars target in
eclipse/help.xml.

-Andrew

"Kirby Bohling" <computerslicer23@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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02/07/2007 09:23 PM

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Is there any particular reason why this can't or hasn't
been done?  I'd 
happily help contribute patches or code to get this functionality 
implemented.  Is there something wrong with the way that the VE code
generates the update site?  I'm happy to use it, but it's just in
a really 
obscure place to be useful.

Maybe you can just give me advice about what I could do if I describe the
over all view:

1. Build a master set of features and plug-ins that actually builds from
source.

2. Take the master set and build various sub-sets of features and package
them (using the Eclipse packager).  This is merely a function of packaging,
not of actual source builds.

3. Take the master set package them into products (using the Eclipse product
build scripts).  This is merely a function of package, not of actual
source 
builds.

I have a site.xml but it has a hardcoded value of the jar's and feature
version inside of it?  Is there any easy path from any step in there
given 
the pieces and parts I have?

Thanks,
    Kirby

>From: Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: "Eclipse PDE Build developers list." <pde-build-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Eclipse PDE Build developers list." <pde-build-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: pde-build-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, pde-build-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [pde-build-dev] Buiding Update sites via headless builds.
>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 20:38:02 -0500
>
>Hi,
>
>There is no support in PDE Build to generate the site.xml. However
the
>packager should support the creation of jars ready for an update site
by
>setting the property: outputUpdateJars=true
>HTH
>PaScaL
>
>
>
>
>"Kirby Bohling" <computerslicer23@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>02/07/2007 04:54 PM
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>
>
>
>
>All,
>
>    Sorry about spamming the dev list if this belongs on
a news group, but
>after looking around I didn't see a news group for PDE.  Hopefully
this is
>
>the correct list, and not much of a bother.
>
>    At my company, I do PDE Headless builds and packaging.
 The last step
>I'd
>like to take is to publish update sites.  I've found where Eclipse
does
>this
>in the nightly build process, but it appears to me that the class to
do it
>
>is in a very odd spot.  It appears that it uses
>"org.eclipse.releng.generators.UpdateBuilder".  Which
the only reference I
>
>can find for that is inside of the org.eclipse.ve.releng.builder.
>
>    Somehow that seemed more appropriate to me to be in a
"core" Eclipse
>tool
>rather then off in the Visual Editor infrastructure.  It looks
like I can
>just pull the two classes in isolation and use them, but I'd much rather
>use
>the "official" ones.  Alternatively, I've missed something
simple, and
>will
>be thrilled to learn how to do this with the stock tools.
>
>Is the UpdateBuilder the best code to use for building update sites
>headlessly?  Is there another copy of that class/code around that
I can
>reference from inside of an Ant script?
>
>      Kirby
>
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