Re: [Hibernate] automated plugin build script

[John Franey]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:04:02 +0200, John Franey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote: Max, and all, You are the man! ,) If you can bring me automated build of this stuff i'll be singing and  praising ,) Oops.  I hope expectations are not raised too high.  Although I've constructed auto build environments before, this is the first for me of eclipse plugins.  I will bring notes and discussion to this mail list as I proceed. I've been so annoyed with eclipse PDE's tedious build system and I have  simply not have found enough solid information and time to do an automated build (and since I can just click "Export feature" today I haven't had enough  motivation for doing it) Your build structure looks a-ok, having build.xml (autogenerated) and  hibernate-build.xml sounds good to me. If you have something already then please provide it as a patch into the  jira and i'll try it out. Negative. Your future plans looks great and it will a very welcome contribution. I have revised abit because I found an eclipse page that describes how to do this with an existing tool in eclipse: PDE BUILD.  I will attempt to conform to this framework.  What I had shared with you fits into this framework, I think.  I'll keep you posted as I proceed. I don't know if you have noticed that i have recently added  org.hibernate.eclipse.feature and org.hibernate.eclipse.updatesite to cvs - two things that also would be  great to automatically build (I even thing the .feature is actually what is meant to be called  head-less) I noticed feature but not updatesite yet.  I'll make sure they are dealt with.  I will document how to add new plugins to the build list.  I assume these are plugins....right?   I was  also assuming the plugin autobuild would be run after autobuild of hibernate, other non-plugins in HibernateExt (console, metadata, whatever); that the plugin autobuild would point to finished autobuild of these.  Are these already autobuilt?  If not, then should that be in scope here?  Personally, I think that is a big chunk to chew off at once and will stick with plugin autobuild in the nearterm. Again - I will really appreciate this stuff, any improvements on  auto-building the plugins will be blis! /max Thanks for allowing me to contribute. John