[news.eclipse.technology.kepler] Re: Comments on the build items

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> I don't see the relationship between "integrating build tools into the 
> development environment" from the proposal and the "headless eclipse-plugin 
> build items". If the proposal is what sets the direction, this is clearly 
> off topic. I personnaly believe that pushing or developing yet another build 
> technology should be left to people that already own such a technology and 
> that the goal of Kepler should be the integration in the IDE like mentionned 
> in the proposal. This will prove to be much more usefull to people.
I agree. When it comes to "headless-plugin build items" we must of course reuse the 
pde-build logic. Here, Kepler must provide a glue between the generated common model and the 
pde-build so that pde-build script generation and the execution of generated scripts can be 
 expressed and orchestrated using the common model.

And this is what the buckminster.pde plugin does. It generates a CSPEC from the pde 
meta-data. The CSPEC expresses dependencies between components in a generic way. It also 
defines the actions needed to do feature/plugin export and build products. Those actions in 
turn use the pde script generators and ant to perform their tasks.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren