Chapter 20. Release Engineering
Up to this point, you have been using the PDE Export Product wizard to publish and create end-user-deliverable versions of Toast. As Toast grows, and as it has more developers working on it and more configurations, there’s a pressing need for automated, reproducible, and accessible builds—release engineering.
Building modularized systems by hand is somewhat challenging and tedious. The compile-time classpath for any given bundle includes the code from all its prerequisites, in a very particular order and with quite a number of classpath access restrictions. Just computing the classpath and build order is hard. Mix in variations such as projects in the workspace, projects checked out from source control in the ...
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