Re: [pde-build-dev] Bundle Dependency Question

[Mark_Melvin@xxxxxxxx]

Hey Thomas,

Well, our build system improvements
are taking so long we may have time to go back and have another look at
Buckminster anyway.  ;o)

I am all for trying it again.  I
still think it has great promise.  I just need to take the time to
wrap my head around it.

Mark.
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pde-build-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/08/2007
11:25:03 AM:

> Hi Mark,
> your criticism is well deserved. I guess I've been a bit to focused
on 
> providing great implementations and not so eager to describe how they
> work :-)
> 
> Seriously, we really have been heads down in design and implementation,
> trying to get everything together before the Europa code freeze but
> we're now working hard now on getting all documentation and examples
in 
> shape before the Europa release.
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
> 
> 
> Mark_Melvin@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > Thanks for your response.  Yes - I have tried Buckminster
a few times 
> > and my brain still hurts. ;o)  To be honest - every time
I read about 
> > it, I think "this is exactly what we need!".  But
every time I tried 
> > to use it, I got errors and could not even get the Hello World
> > examples to work.  It seems like a brilliant package, but
I still 
> > cannot understand how to use it.  And given the trouble
I had 
> > following the examples on a few separate occasions it just seemed
that 
> > it was not ready yet.  As much as I would like to help out
the project 
> > and actually devote the time to figure it out - I simply didn't
> > (don't?) have the time.  It also seemed to be changing quite
a bit 
> > still and I figured it would be quite risky to starting coding
on top 
> > of it at that point.
> > You can find my various posts to the newsgroup.  I imagine
a lot of 
> > the problems I had before have been worked out but at the time
I just 
> > had to move on to finding other solutions.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply,
> > Mark.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > pde-build-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/04/2007 06:21:49
PM:
> >
> > > Hi Mark,
> > > If you want a solution that will be able to understand and
populate 
> > your
> > > workspace using transitive dependencies in both features,
plug-ins, and
> > > Maven projects, you should take a look at the Eclipse technology
> > project
> > > Buckminster. http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster.
> > >
> > > We can build using the underlying PDE-build mechanisms and
we do a
> > > fairly good job building RCP apps. Similar to Ivy, our Maven
support is
> > > not on par with what Maven themselves provide. We expect
that to 
> > improve
> > > in the near future since our home brewed Maven integration
will be
> > > replaced by a plug-in written by Maven people that embeds
the real 
> > thing.
> > >
> > > We've been looking at Ivy as a candidate for integration
also, but we
> > > haven't got around to that yet.
> > >
> > > I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have on
Buckminster on
> > > our newsgroup or on our mailing-lists.
> > >
> > > Kind Regards,
> > > Thomas Hallgren
> > >
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