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  1. Feb 03, 2010
  2. Jan 29, 2010
    • Shawn Pearce's avatar
      Generate an Eclipse IP log with jgit eclipse-iplog · 1e48c338
      Shawn Pearce authored
      
      The new plugin contains the bulk of the logic to scan a Git repository,
      and query IPZilla, in order to produce an XML formatted IP log for the
      requested revision of any Git based project.  This plugin is suitable
      for embedding into a servlet container, or into the Eclipse workbench.
      
      The command line pgm package knows how to invoke this plugin through
      the eclipse-iplog subcommand, permitting storage of the resulting
      log as a local XML file.
      
      Change-Id: If01d9d98d07096db6980292bd5f91618c55d00be
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
      1e48c338
  3. Jan 12, 2010
  4. Jan 10, 2010
  5. Dec 28, 2009
    • Shawn Pearce's avatar
      Switch build to Apache Felix maven-bundle-plugin · fc5fc70e
      Shawn Pearce authored
      
      Tycho isn't production ready for projects like JGit to be using as
      their primary build driver.  Some problems we ran into with Tycho
      0.6.0 that are preventing us from using it are:
      
       * Tycho can't run offline
      
         The P2 artifact resolver cannot perform its work offline.  If the
         build system has no network connection, it cannot compile a
         project through Tycho.  This is insane for a distributed version
         control system where developers are used to being offline during
         development and local testing.
      
       * Magic state in ~/.m2/repository/.meta/p2-metadata.properties
      
         Earlier iterations of this patch tried to use a hybrid build,
         where Tycho was only used for the Eclipse specific feature and P2
         update site, and maven-bundle-plugin was used for the other code.
         This build seemed to work, but only due to magic Tycho specific
         state held in my local home directory.  This means builds are not
         consistently repeatable across systems, and lead me to believe
         I had a valid build, when in fact I did not.
      
       * Manifest-first build produces incomplete POMs
      
         The POM created by the manifest-first build format does not
         contain the dependency chain, leading a downstream consumer to
         not import the runtime dependencies necessary to execute the
         bundle it has imported.  In JGit's case, this means JSch isn't
         included in our dependency chain.
      
       * Manifest-first build produces POMs unreadable by Maven 2.x
      
         JGit has existing application consumers who are relying on
         Maven 2.x builds.  Forcing them to step up to an alpha release
         of Maven 3 is simply unacceptable.
      
       * OSGi bundle export data management is tedious
      
         Editing each of our pom.xml files to mark a new release is
         difficult enough as it is.  Editing every MANIFEST.MF file to
         list our exported packages and their current version number is
         something a machine should do, not a human.  Yet the Tycho OSGi
         way unfortunately demands that a human do this work.
      
       * OSGi bundle import data management is tedious
      
         There isn't a way in the MANIFEST.MF file format to reuse the
         same version tags across all of our imports, but we want to have
         a consistent view of our dependencies when we compile JGit.
      
      After wasting more than 2 full days trying to get Tycho to work,
      I've decided its a lost cause right now.  We need to be chasing down
      bugs and critical features, not trying to bridge the gap between
      the stable Maven repository format and the undocumented P2 format
      used only by Eclipse.
      
      So, switch the build to use Apache Felix's maven-bundle-plugin.
      
      This is the same plugin Jetty uses to produce their OSGi bundle
      manifests, and is the same plugin used by the Apache Felix project,
      which is an open-source OSGi runtime.  It has a reasonable number
      of folks using it for production builds, and is running on top of
      the stable Maven 2.x code base.
      
      With this switch we get automatically generated MANIFEST.MF files
      based on reasonably sane default rules, which reduces the amount
      of things we have to maintain by hand.  When necessary, we can add
      a few lines of XML to our POMs to tweak the output.
      
      Our build artifacts are still fully compatible with Maven 2.x, so
      any downstream consumers are still able to use our build products,
      without stepping up to Maven 3.x.  Our artifacts are also valid as
      OSGi bundles, provided they are organized on disk into a repository
      that the runtime can read.
      
      With maven-bundle-plugin the build runs offline, as much as Maven
      2.x is able to run offline anyway, so we're able to return to a
      distributed development environment again.
      
      By generating MANIFEST.MF at the top level of each project (and
      therefore outside of the target directory), we're still compatible
      with Eclipse's PDE tooling.  Our projects can be imported as standard
      Maven projects using the m2eclipse plugin, but the PDE will think
      they are vaild plugins and make them available for plugin builds,
      or while debugging another workbench.
      
      This change also completely removes Tycho from the build.
      
      Unfortunately, Tycho 0.6.0's pom-first dependency resolver is broken
      when resolving a pom-first plugin bundle through a manifest-first
      feature package, so bundle org.eclipse.jgit can't be resolved,
      even though it might actually exist in the local Maven repository.
      
      Rather than fight with Tycho any further, I'm just declaring it
      plugina-non-grata and ripping it out of the build.
      
      Since there are very few tools to build a P2 format repository, and
      no documentation on how to create one without running the Eclipse
      UI manually by poking buttons, I'm declaring that we are not going
      to produce a P2 update site from our automated builds.
      
      Change-Id: If7938a86fb0cc8e25099028d832dbd38110b9124
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
      fc5fc70e
  6. Nov 03, 2009
    • Shawn Pearce's avatar
      Refactor the cached Authenticator data out of AwtAuthenticator · 91080357
      Shawn Pearce authored
      
      This makes it easier to swap out authenticator implementations and
      yet still rely upon being able to configure at least one Authenticator
      instance in the JVM and program it with data obtained from outside
      of the user interface.
      
      Change-Id: I8c1a0eb8acee1d306f4c3b40a790b7fa0c3abb70
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
      91080357
    • Shawn Pearce's avatar
      Refactor our Maven build to be modular · dad52baa
      Shawn Pearce authored
      
      Drop our simple and stupid jgit.sh and instead rely upon Maven
      for the command line based build.  Maven is relatively simple to
      download and install, and doesn't require the entire Eclipse IDE.
      
      To avoid too much refactoring of the current code we reuse the
      existing src/ directory within each plugin, and treat each of
      the existing OSGI bundles as one Maven artifact.
      
      The command line wrapper jgit.sh no longer works in the uncompiled
      state, as we don't know where to obtain our JSch or args4j from.
      Developers will now need to compile it with `mvn package`, or run
      our Main class from within an IDE which has the proper classpath.
      
      Bug: 291265
      Change-Id: I355e95fa92fa7502651091d2b651be6917a26805
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
      dad52baa
    • Shawn Pearce's avatar
      Switch pgm, test to proper plugin projects · 5b89088f
      Shawn Pearce authored
      
      This way we depend upon the MANIFEST.MF to define our classpath
      and our build will act more like any other OSGI bundle build.
      
      Change-Id: I9e1f1f5a0bccb0ab0e39e49b75fb400fea446619
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
      5b89088f
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