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RAP/Build
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Release Engineering
With RAP we have two different builds in place: one for the target and one of the tooling. The build for the tooling heavily relies on the other build as we need to bundle the target into in the intro plugin and also need the sources for generating the help contents (like javadoc or extension point documentation).
Setup the build
The target build script resides in the org.eclipse.rap.releng
bundle which can be found in CVS. What you need to do to setup a new target build is to checkout the releng plugin, download the eclipse sdk (at least platform+pde) for 3.2 and 3.3 and unzip them into a directory. Furthermore you need to modify the build.properties
to point it to the right directories of your eclipse installations.
Starting the build
In order to start the build, you need to execute the pde build antscript by providing different parameters like which releng project to use and other options to control the output name (build type, version, etc). A sample script could look like this:
#!/bin/bash export buildbase=/home/rapbuild/releng cd /home/rapbuild/releng/build-platforms/3.3/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.3.0.v20070612/scripts java -cp ../../org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070606.jar:../../org.junit_3.8.2.v200706111738/junit.jar \ org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner \ -Dbuilder=`echo $buildbase`/org.eclipse.rap.releng/ -DbuildId=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`\ -Dbuild.base=`echo $buildbase` -DtargetVersion=1.0.1 -DbuildType=N \ -DoutputDirectory="`echo $WORKSPACE`/targets" $1
Name | Description |
---|---|
builder | Which Builder to use (releng project in our case) |
buildId | build id to identify the builds |
buildType | which type the build is (N/I/R) - only used for labeling the output |
build.base | path to the root of our build. will be used for building and output of the build |
After executing the script you'll find a new build of the target platform in the build.base
/targets directory.
Building new version
- update
targetVersion
paramter of the build script - update bundle manifest with the new versions
Adding new bundles
- add them to one of the features
- update the map file with the name and path to the plugin
Help
Adding new packages to javadoc
- add reference in toc.xml of the help plugin
Adding new extension point description
- add reference in toc.xml of the help plugin
Milestone/Release Build Check List
- tag CVS: tag everything contained in the technology/org.eclipse.rap module. You may need to increase the CVS connection timeout in Preferences -> Team -> CVS -> Connection tab (120 Sec seem to work)
- update help
- update default target path in intro plug-in
- update release train files (e.g. Ganymede/Signoffs)
- notify newsgroup and mailing list
- finalize new & noteworthy
- update web site: new & noteworthy, download
- scan Bugzilla for bugs that are still open but solved, verify target version of closed bugs
- update infocenter content and links to infocenter from project home page (release versions only)