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Bug 367578

Summary: [Build] Migrate build to Tycho
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Aaron Digulla <digulla>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Birt-Build <Birt-Build-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: bluesoldier, dinghui85
Version: 4.0.0   
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Aaron Digulla CLA 2011-12-27 09:10:31 EST 
There are several Eclipse projects which have migrated from PDE Build to Tycho (http://www.eclipse.org/tycho/):

- Mylyn (http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/experiences-from-migrating-mylyn-to-git-and-tycho)
- GEF3D (http://jevopisdeveloperblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/gef3d-goes-git-maventycho-and-hudson.html)
- m2e, ZEST, Linux Tools, Jubula, Skalli, ...

You might also want to look at http://blog.modeltwozero.com/2011/06/moving-to-tycho-and-teamcity-part-1.html

The consensus is that it takes some planning to get the build migrated but after that, a lot of the problems of PDE build are gone forever. The resulting project is easy to build for anyone anywhere (compare that to the current state where it only one person can build it on a single build server).

Please consider to migrate the BIRT project to Tycho.
Comment 1 Aaron Digulla CLA 2012-07-31 07:14:41 EDT 
If you don't already know, there is now a new "project" called CBI with the goal to build all of Eclipse with Tycho. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI

They already succeeded in compiling most of the platform + JDT: http://wiki.eclipse.org/CBI/Eclipse_Platform_Build

It took me about five minutes to start the build using the instructions there and the build completed successfully!