Dash Athena: More Ant, More Tests, More Repos!

• Infrastructure Changes

• bug 295394 - Headless UI tests are broken on build.eclipse.org! See workaround here.

• Cross-Platform / Ease of Use

• bug 282987 Can now define Eclipse platform as a p2 repo + required features/plugins. Can also use platform, SDK, or RCP zip, as before. See also Defining Binary Dependencies.

• bug 292589 Support building from Ant in Hudson (instead of via Bash script)

• bug 295670 Support running JUnit tests run from Ant script instead of Bash - tests can now be run on Linux and Windows (and to a lesser extent on Mac OSX) using new testLocal build step

• Bug Fixes

• bug 292486 Allow builds to fail if unit tests fail using failBuildIfTestFailuresOrErrors=true

• bug 294678 Categories don't show up with IBM 1.6 JDK - implemented workaround so a different JDK can be used for p2 operations than for compilation of sources: use PACK200_JAVA_HOME=/path/to/different/JDK

• bug 295773 Non-incubating projects no longer need to set "incubation=" in their build.properties

• bug 292235 Included pre-compiled binary features/plugins are now included by default using PDE's runPackager property; can disable this behaviour with packageFeaturesIncludedBinaries=false

• Documentation

• Testing - Different ways to run or re-run tests, including as a secondary process after a build (so they can be run on a different platform or by a different user)

• Defining Binary Dependencies - All four types of repos are now currently supported: remote zip, remote site, local zip, local site.

p2 does not natively support remote repo zips; to workaround this the zip is fetched and the URL is rewritten from http://path/to/foo.zip to jar:file:/tmp/path/foo.zip!/

• Build In Hudson - Ant Job, Ant Script - new, simpler way to run builds in Hudson using pure Ant

• Build In Hudson - Bash Job - updated & refactored

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