CSS Build and Update System

Kunal Shroff

EPICS Spring Collaboration Meeting, June 2010

Aix-en-Provence

CSS Design

2

Eclipse RuntimeOSGi (Equinox)

Java Virtual Machine

IDE with CSS applications

CSS UI

CSS Core UI

Eclipse RCP UI

Eclipse IDE

CSS Headless

Eclipse RCP

CSS Core

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CSS Mercurial repository

Distributed revision control• Offline operation• Changesets based

HgEclipse – mercurial plugin for eclipse• DVCS with best support• Clone, push, pull, commit• Add, remove, merge• Browse history

CSS build The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)

• The usual way of building is using the Export wizard which requires

- launching eclipse IDE- Creating the target- Setting up the workspace- Lots of user interaction

Headless build system• Run from command line

CSS headless build

Generic Headless build ./build

• Download & untars eclipse in a temp directory

• Creates the buildDirectory by collecting all the required plugins and features

Site specific• product plugins/feature• build.properties• category.xml

are obtained from the css/product/site/…

CSS Continuous Integration SystemUsing Hudson

Building/testing software projects continuously• Detects and fixes

integration problems continuously

• Automate Deployment – publishes the update site to sourceforge

• Makes the build process transparent.

• Saves time and effort

Eclipse p2 – update management

p2 provides a provisioning platform for Eclipse-based applications• Update your RCP and OSGi applications• Provide a mechanism to install and manage new features• Provide a mechanism to manage different configurations• Manage your developers target platforms

CSS-NSLSII

p2 enabled product CSS-NSLSII update site

• http://cs-studio.sourceforge.net/nsls2/dev-updates

Install/update preferences.• List of update sites known to CSS• Update configuration options

- Self updating applications- Update from cloud- User initiated update

CSS-NSLSII update

Conclusions

Restructured repository Generic headless build system Continuous Integration with hudson p2 for installation and update management

Questions