[jbosstools-dev] JBDS 7 / JBT 4.1 target platform w/ Kepler M7 bits ... finally!

[Nick Boldt]

After a rather harrowing week of failed builds, failed tests, failed
validations, failed solutions, and an overwhelming amount frustration,
we finally have a working target platform which includes the Kepler M7
bits, just in time for tomorrow's code freeze.

If you encounter problems when building your bits against it, consider
two things:

== Test Run Failures ==

Make sure you're using the latest parent pom from the master branch
(Beta1), as a change was required to make tests run correctly [1]. If
you do something similar in your own project's test poms, you will need
to change your poms accordingly, as there is no longer a
org.eclipse.platform.ide IU available, only a org.eclipse.platform one.

== Dependency Resolution or Other Failures ==

Issues can be reported here [2] - note the various subtasks and related
issues, too.

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The new target platform replaces the previous one by the same name,
Alpha4-SNAPSHOT. It can be found here:

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/targetplatforms/jbosstoolstarget/4.30.5.Alpha4-SNAPSHOT/
http://www.qa.jboss.com/binaries/RHDS/targetplatforms/jbdevstudiotarget/4.30.5.Alpha4-SNAPSHOT/

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If you require SOURCES when provisioning the target platform to your
local machine, use this flag to build it locally.

$ mvn clean verify -Dmirror-target-to-repo.includeSources=true

You should see new source bundles for TM, RSE and EGit have been added.
If you require additional sources for your work which are NOT available,
please report it here [3].

Any questions, you know where to reach me.

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[1]
https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build/commit/d47bb0c3faffcfa554afd1dae528d716f8702845

[2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-14420

[3] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-14088

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Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat
Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio
http://nick.divbyzero.com