[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Re: Buckminster team willing to comm

["Henrik Lindberg" <glashammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You can read more about Buckminster in general on the Eclipse wiki 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Buckminster_Project



The functionality that I guess is could be of special interest to this 
project is the Buckminster installer; a headless packaging of 
Eclipse/Buckminster that can run from a command line, or soon be invoked via 
Java Web Start. This installer is about 2M in size and includes the Eclipse 
update manager.



Buckminster installs things based on a Bill of Materials that Buckminster 
can produce based on transitive dependencies (such as the OSGi declared 
dependencies found in Eclipse artifacts). A Bill of Materials can be 
produced for concepts such as "latest" etc. which means it is possible to 
create a "dynamic installer" that is not bound to a particular version (or 
is partially bound to particular versions for some components, and 
dynamically bound to others). Buckminster also materializes from different 
repositories; naturally from Eclipse update sites, but also from other 
repositories (web, ftp, svn, cvs, etc).



Finally, Buckminster has an action framework and can invoke actions on 
components; (Eclipse internal, such as PDE builds, but also via ant). It is 
thus easy to define actions that create packages based on things that are 
fetched dynamically.



I hope that gives some ideas about what Buckminster technology can do for 
this project, and we are also very open to improvment suggestions!



Regards

- henrik



"Jochen Krause" <jkrause@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet 
news:em74ab$o9k$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hendrik,
>
> That is great. There has been significant interest from multiple parties 
> over the last couple of days, and the install topic is consistently one of 
> high interest.
>
> Can you point us to the technology that Buckminster provides in this area.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jochen
>
>
>
> Henrik Lindberg wrote:
>> Hi, we have now synced up internally, and Cloudsmith / i.e. the 
>> Buckminster team is very interested in helping out and becoming comitters 
>> on this project.
>> It will be me, and one of Thomas Hallgren, Filip Hrbek, or Karel Brezina.
>>
>> Looking forward to discussing this project and requirments further.
>> Best Regards
>> Henrik Lindberg
>>
>>