[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-11714) Replace requirements folder & requirements bootstrap job by "self-hosted" content in pom.xml ?

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-11714:
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Many of these runtime requirement builders use a shared script, only passing in different properties:

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/requirements/jbeap/
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/requirements/jbossas-4.2.3.GA/
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/requirements/jbossas-7.1.1.Final/
etc.

Deviations from the "use generic/common downloader" approach are for the cases where a single req fetcher/builder is made to handle more than one download:

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/requirements/soap/
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/requirements/jbossas/

Or where the fetching process requires some special steps:

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/requirements/seam-2.0.1.GA/
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/requirements/seam-2.3.0/

Because of differences, I question the benefit to porting all this to maven simply so that a single component can bootstrap itself. This already happens via the test harness. If a requirements.properties file is found, those requirement builders fire locally, fetch what's needed, and the tests proceed. In Jenkins, however, they can benefit from a pre-bootstrapped cache of these files so the download's faster/easier.

Simply switching to maven to fetch zips (and unpack them)... what would the gain be? Sounds a bit like "I don't like American, let's speak English instead": same conversation, but with slightly different words. :)


                
> Replace requirements folder & requirements bootstrap job by "self-hosted" content in pom.xml ?
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>                 Key: JBIDE-11714
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11714
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.0.Beta3
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>            Assignee: Mickael Istria
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.3.0.CR1
>
>
> Currently, jobs depdend on the requirement folder to perform tests (requirement contains scripts aimed to retrieving runtimes for tests). Instead, we should think about creating a Maven Mojo or something more convenient so that test pom.xml could directly contain their setup.

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