[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: How to fetch GEF and build using command li

[Alex Blewitt <alex_blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

The starting point for downloading the builds is the component definition(s) which are often found in a 'releng' type folder. This contains the pointer to the map files in CVS, which in turn contain pointers to all the other feature(s) that are needed by a particular plugin.

The question is where are these for GEF :-)

Certainly, for the Eclipse build the map files are stored in http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.releng/maps/ although the 'bootstrap' files that download these actually come from http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.releng.eclipsebuilder/ -- but then, if you've done this already, you probably know this :-)

You'll notice that all of these are looking at the Eclipse project (there's a drop-down box just above the first set of entries reported). There are other ones -- for BIRT, for TPTP etc. -- and there's the one for Tools too. GEF hangs out in this one.

I'm guessing that the maps are in http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.gef.releng/?cvsroot=Tools_Project although the bootstrap files are probably elsewhere. I'm betting in http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.releng.gefbuilder/?cvsroot=Tools_Project

Whatdyaknow, there's even an HTML describing how to build GEF:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.releng.gefbuilder/readme.html?rev=1.2&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Disclaimer; I've not actually done a build of GEF. I've probably spent more time going through the automated builds than I'd like though, so this is all based on past experience. But if it's anything like the others, all you need to is run the build.xml in headless mode and it takes care of the rest.

(By the way, you don't actually need the basebuilder plugin to do the work; an Eclipse install will do the same. It's relatively easy to kick it off otherwise; I put together an 'eant' script that called the headless builds. You can find out more about it on http://www.rcpapps.org/EclipseCon2006/ or catch up with me at EclipseCon if you want to know more.)

Hope it works for you,

Alex.