Re: [tcf-dev] Update TCF build environment to use Eclipse 4.3.1 as targe

["Stieber, Uwe" <Uwe.Stieber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

To wrap this up ... We have now 3 jobs to cover all relevant Eclipse runtime versions at https://hudson.eclipse.org/tcf ...

	- tcf-master ... this is the main job building against Eclipse 3.8.2 SDK and delivering the repo to the download server
	- tcf-master-4.3 ... building against Eclipse 4.3.1 SDK
	- tcf-master-4.4 ... building against Eclipse 4.4 M5 SDK

I also took the time to get the existing debugger and target explorer unit tests integrated into the builds. Each build is executing the tests against the SDK the artifacts are build for. Test failures are reported to the job pages only, they do not fail the build, only marking them "unstable". While we should look into the failures (target explorer only at this point of time), I don't want to have the tests stopping the delivery of the built artifacts to the download server.

Note, while we also collect coverage information during the tests via JaCoCo, I haven't found a way to publish those to the job pages.

I also created target definition files for each target platform we build and test against in "admin/target-defs". New contributors can use these target platform definition files to set the desired target platform quickly without reading a document describing which component comes from which P2 server in which version. Together with the project set's created by Martin O. to import the relevant sources into a fresh workspace, new contributors should be able to get up and running to contribute in minutes.

IMO, this is a big step forward for the TCF/TE project to assure that we do not break anything in future in terms of functionality and Eclipse SDK compatiblity while working with different target platforms.

Best regards, Uwe :)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eugene Tarassov
> Sent: Freitag, 24. Jänner 2014 19:03
> To: TCF Development
> Subject: Re: [tcf-dev] Update TCF build environment to use Eclipse 4.3.1 as target platform
> 
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> Sounds great to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eugene
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stieber, Uwe
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:24 PM
> To: TCF Development
> Subject: Re: [tcf-dev] Update TCF build environment to use Eclipse 4.3.1 as target platform
> 
> Hi Eugene,
> 
> OK. Current plan is to have two jobs, one building against the Eclipse 4.x and one building against the
> Eclipse 3.8.2 platform. As the current "tcf-master" job is building just fine, I'll leave that job untouched
> and let it continue to use Eclipse 3.8.2. Additional to the "tcf-master", I'll create 2 new jobs, "tcf-master-
> 4.3" and "tcf-master-4.4" building against Eclipse 4.3.x (Kepler) and Eclipse 4.4 (Luna). As we had bug
> reports in the recent past that some API changes in Luna broke the build, I want to have things verified
> against the released 4.x version and against the development stream. While all jobs provides the
> org.eclipse.tcf.repo.zip archive for download, only the original "tcf-master" job will update the download
> area at download.eclipse.org.
> 
> Does this sounds reasonable?
> 
> Thanks, Best regards, Uwe :)
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Eugene Tarassov
> > Sent: Donnerstag, 23. Jänner 2014 19:29
> > To: TCF Development
> > Subject: Re: [tcf-dev] Update TCF build environment to use Eclipse
> > 4.3.1 as target platform
> >
> > Hi Uwe,
> >
> > > Question is: Does anyone still requires that the TCF plug-in's /
> > > features are built against Eclipse 3.8.2
> > for compatibility reasons?
> >
> > Yes, Xilinx SDK is still based on Eclipse 3.8.2. Could you setup a new
> > Hudson job for Eclipse 4.*? It's OK for us if 3.8.2 build does not include Target Explorer.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eugene
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Stieber, Uwe
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 1:20 AM
> > To: TCF Development
> > Subject: [tcf-dev] Update TCF build environment to use Eclipse 4.3.1
> > as target platform
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm planning to move the TCF build to use Eclipse 4.3.1 SDK as target
> > platform. Up to now, all TCF plug- in's and features are built against Eclipse 3.8.2 SDK.
> >
> > Question is: Does anyone still requires that the TCF plug-in's /
> > features are built against Eclipse 3.8.2 for compatibility reasons?
> >
> > Note that there are no plans to change the minium required versions
> > declared by the plug-in's / features, so installing TCF into a Eclipse 3.8.2 environment is still possible, at
> least for the time being.
> >
> > Thanks, Best regards, Uwe :)
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