Re: ClearCase 'checkout' implementation

[dan tran]

On 11/30/05, Wim Deblauwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

2005/11/30, dan tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On 11/30/05, Wim Deblauwe < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Good suggestions there Dan! It is indeed platform dependant and following the maven 2 way, we should be able to put those things in the settings.xml. Is that possible? That way, it's not needed anymore in the scm url.

 

Unfortunatly we dont have access to setting.xml  from maven-scm.  Therefore we may endup

implementing access to setting.xml in both maven-scm-plugin and maven-release-plugin.

We may be able to replace release:perform step with scm:bootstrap. So only one place has

the setting info.  However I dont know if settings.xml has room for this type of user preferences.

Should we mail Brett or someone else about this?

 

 

You can open JIRA request for this.

 

On the view name: shouldn't we include the artifactId also. What if Continuum wants to build 2 projects? It will need to create 2 views and they cannot have the same name.

 

This will solve your case.  I do have case where I want to run same project on diffirent schedules

( ie one for snapshot build happen every hr, one for release build every night). In this case,

we have view name collision. This is a tough case to solve. we can try to genereate a unique

view name if userer does not specify a view name.  However in this case, who is responsible

to remove the view after build is done?  maven-scm creates it, then it should allow method to

remove it.

 

But let's go with ${hostname}-{user.name}-${artifactId} first.  Cant discuss forever ;-)

Does Continuum 'checkout' the code, builds and then removes the working directory again? Or does the working directory remain and is there some kind of update command that should happen?

 

Continum first does a checkout, then from there on issue update and changelog to detect changes.

However if your config spec changes, the update command will need to sync with changes in

config spec file. In UCM the command is cleartool setcs -stream.(wonder if this command apply to base scm)

 

 

about config spec file, i guest you ignore this file at release:perform time right?

since you will generate your own spec file base on a label right?

Yes, very true. We should ignore it, if there is a non-null tag in the checkout command.

 

regards,

Wim