1402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> 2402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<html> 3402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<head> 4402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<title>Eclipse Corner</title> 5402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://dev.eclipse.org/default_style.css"> 6402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 7402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll</head> 8402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b" alink="#ff0000"> 9402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<table border=0 cellspacing=5 cellpadding=2 width="100%" > <tr> <td align=left valign=top colspan="2" bgcolor="#0080c0"><b><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica" COLOR="#ffffff"><your 10402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollproject> Build Types</FONT></b></td></tr> <tr> <td align=right valign=top><img src="http://dev.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td><td> 11402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Releases</font></b> <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> 12402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll</font>Releases are builds that have been declared major releases by the development 13402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollteam - for example "R1.0". Releases are the right builds for people 14402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollwho want to be on a stable, tested release, and don't need the latest greatest 15402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollfeatures and improvements. <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Release 16402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollbuilds always have an "R" at the beginning of the name i.e. R1.0, R2.0 17402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Molletc. Non-release builds are named according to the date of the build - for example 18402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll20011027 is the build from Oct 27, 2001.</font><br> </p></td></tr> <tr> <td align=right valign=top><img src="http://dev.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td><td><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Stable 19402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael MollBuilds</font></b> <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Stable builds 20402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollare integration builds that have been found to be stable enough for most people 21402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollto use. They are promoted from integration build to stable build by the architecture 22402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollteam after they have been used for a few days and deemed reasonably stable. The 23402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Molllatest stable build is the right build for people who want to stay up to date 24402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollwith what is going on in the latest development stream, and don't mind putting 25402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollup with a few problems in order to get the latest greatest features and bug fixes. 26402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael MollThe latest stable build is the one the development team likes people to be using, 27402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollbecause of the valuable and timely feedback. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td align=right valign=top><img src="http://dev.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td><td> 28402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Integration Builds</font></b> 29402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Periodically, component teams 30402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollversion off their work in what they believe is a stable, consistent state, and 31402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollthey update the build configuration to indicate that the next integration build 32402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollshould take this version of the component. Integration builds are built from these 33402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollstable component versions that have been specified by each component team as the 34402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollbest version available. Integration builds may be promoted to stable builds after 35402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Molla few days of testing. Integration builds are built whenever new stable component 36402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollversions are released into the build.</font></p></td></tr> <tr> <td align=right valign=top><img src="http://dev.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td><td><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Nightly 37402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael MollBuilds</font></b><br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Nightly builds 38402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollare produced over night from whatever has been released into the HEAD stream of 39402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollthe CVS repository. They are completely untested and will almost always have major 40402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollproblems. Many will not work at all. These drops are normally only useful to developers 41402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollactually working on the <your project>.<BR> <BR>Note: Nightly builds are 42402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollproduced only as requested, and not necessarily every night, by developers to 43402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollbuild what was in HEAD. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td align=right valign=top><img src="http://dev.eclipse.org/images/Adarrow.gif" border=0 height=16 width=16></td><td> 44402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Maintenance Builds</font></b> 45402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll<br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva">Periodically builds for maintenance 46402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollof the current release will be performed. They will not necessarily be stable 47402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollbuilds. When the maintenace is finalized and released, it will be moved up to 48402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Molla Release build. If the build name starts with an "M" i.e. M20031110, 49402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Mollthen it has not been tested for stability. If it is a release candidate, i.e. 50402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll0.5.0.1RC1, then it is a stable maintenance build.</font></p></td></tr> </table><h3> </h3> 51402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll</body> 52402794e73aed8611d62eb4b01cd155e2d76fcb87Raphael Moll</html> 53
