[news.eclipse.tools.buckminster] Re: Thanks! I've got an RCP Build Worki

["Tas Frangoullides" <tfrangoullides@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henrik,

Nice to hear from you. Sorry I took time responding.. I was trying to get my 
automated tests working with buckminster. That  now works which is a major 
milestone for me and means we can use buckminster for all our builds. It's a 
great tool whose design you really appreciate once you get to grips with it 
but being so sophisticated means it has a learning curve... but then eclipse 
builds have never been easy.

A tutorial slot at EclipseCon sounds fantastic. It's so much easier for 
people to learn when they have an opportunity to do it themselves but with 
an expert present. I also find that tutorials are great for improving the 
product because as you try to document small steps you become aware of 
features which can be refined.

So right now I need to consolidate what I've learnt. I need to clean up my 
example and then I'm going to produce a tutorial which explains how to do 
it. My goal for this tutorial is not to simply explain how to set up a build 
but to reveal and teach parts of buckminster along the way. Inevitably this 
will be focused on the way we like to organize our builds but it shouldn't 
be much work to make it more generic.

Maybe the first step is for me to produce my first draft and then let you 
take a look at. I'm going on a short vacation tomorrow but returning on 
Sunday. I'll probably have something by the end of next week.

Thanks,
Tas


"Henrik Lindberg" <henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Congratulations on making it work!
>
> I am very much aware of that we do not yet have an example that covers 
> target platform materialization yet - I just started on that.
>
> I think it is very useful for the community to see what others have done. 
> There is always some new twist on things that others can take inspiration 
> from.
>
> Maybe we can get a tutorial slot at the next Eclipse Con - that would 
> force us into producing the tutorial material for sure :) - I think it 
> could be a great idea to collaborate on this too.
>
> - henrik
>
> Tas Frangoullides wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Many thanks for helping me establish a build with buckminster. I now have 
> > an RCP product build which is fairly simple to bootsrap and can reproduce 
> > previous releases. I could have not done it without this newsgroup. 
> > Although the documentation for buckminster is excellent, and I have 
> > always retrospectively found the asnwers I was looking for, I have 
> > struggled to find out what I needed as I needed it. I think we could 
> > benefit from more tutorials which teach buckminsters concepts along the 
> > way. If I get buckminster to do everything we need I willl be replacing 
> > PDE Build with it, and  I'll need to document our new build process and 
> > also a produce a bucminster tutorial. I'll share this with you in case 
> > you think it useful to the community.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> > Tas