Re: [platform-releng-dev] Should "build-individual-bundles" be enabled b

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest you open a bug if you want a change in Eclipse
Releng ... just so there's better long term capturing of discussion, pros
and cons, etc., but I will say I don't like the idea. I think building
an individual bundle comes with a ton of assumptions ... which experts
know about ... but experts can also write a little script to invoke how
ever they'd like to do "most often" if you are trying to save
yourself key strokes ... but I think non-experts should get the standard
behavior until they learn enough about what the assumptions and shortcomings
are (by which point they could write a their own script or alias).  

The "real" problem is we still have a monolithic,
dirty-tree build, and think solving that is the only valid "build
less" solution. 

But I don't want discussion to stop just based on
my opinion, so if important to you ... open a bug and I'll be glad to read
about pros and cons. But would not want to make a snap decision.  

Thanks, 





From:      
 Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Eclipse platform
release engineering list." <platform-releng-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date:      
 12/16/2013 04:35 AM
Subject:    
   [platform-releng-dev]
Should "build-individual-bundles" be enabled      
 by default?
Sent by:    
   platform-releng-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi all,

It seems to me that since Tycho is mainly aimed at making it easier for
contributors to build and test stuff locally, it makes sense that the default
maven execution "mvn clean verify" does exactly what contributors
need.
In such case, I'd like to suggest that the "build-individual-bundles"
profile should be activeByDefault. Indeed, when working on a single bundle
or single component, just like contributors do, this profile is mandatory
to resolve dependencies to other Platform components.
If this get activeByDefault, it can be easily disabled in "Build All"
cases, by using command-line "mvn clean verify -P!build-individual-bundles"
which will skip the eclipse.p2.repo repository definition and will try
to resolve Platform dependencies from inside the reactor.

What do you think?
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss,
by Red Hat
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