Build Enhancements

• Set permissions on files and folders [Paul]
  • The build script that uploads files to the Eclipse download servers should set the files "world readable" and the directories world r-x upon uploading them to the servers
• No regeneration of build.xml after changing a project's dependencies. [Jim]
  • Each project's build should ideally do whatever it takes to work before and after changes to that project's dependency list.
• Dependencies are versioned. [Jim]
  • We should be able at worst to cause a build to use a specified CVS tag for all dependencies, and ideally, we should be able to specify a cvs tag for each dependency.
• Single place for dependencies. [Jim]
  • Right now, we've decided to list them in manifest.mf. Because this file doesn't allow us to control its contents, we're restricted from doing things like #2 above. Moreover, it sounds like build.properties must also in some cases be updated with dependencies when there's a need to differentiate between build libs and runtime libs. I think we should be updating our own dependencies.xml file, and that should be used to auto-gen, or update the manifest.mf as appropriate.
• Any automated process should mirror manual processes. [Jim]
  • If I pull down a project into a fresh work area and run it's build (which automates the process of gathering dependencies), the result should look the same as if I had manually gathered all those dependencies. Also, the fetched dependencies should remain in place and be usable at a later time.
• Option: tag all components just before building [Paul]
  • This is an optional part of the nightly build process
  • If build succeeds, and if the tagging was enabled, and if it was a candidate stable build, then having the source tagged will make it easy for us to check out this tag, and create a branch so that further tweaks to the stable build can be done on this branch.
  • In order to generated the latest build on a stable build branch, we'll also need to be able to specify the branch for the script to use when checking out the code
  • The script needs to operate as a committer --not an anonymous user

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