How to build

Dependencies

Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers, see https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/2022-03/r/eclipse-ide-eclipse-committers
Maven: just install the m2e plugin, see https://www.eclipse.org/m2e
Tycho: do not need separate installation, will be fetched by Maven during the build automattically, see https://eclipse.org/tycho

Clone EasyShell from https://github.com/anb0s/EasyShell.git to new directory EasyShell
switch to main branch
Import all projects to Eclipse and add them to new "Working Set" EasyShell
- EasyShell: root project, needed only for readme, headless build etc.
- de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.feature: feature project
- de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.platform: platform definition
- de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.plugin: plugin with main sources
- de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.site: update site

Clone EasyShell from https://github.com/anb0s/EasyShell.git to new directory EasyShell-gh-pages
switch to gh-pages branch
Import the project to Eclipse and add it to "Wortking Set" EasyShell
- EasyShell-gh-pages: root project, needed for web- and update-site

select target platform you want to test EasyShell against:
- go to project de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.platform
- open wanted platform definition file, e.g. use Eclipse-2022-03.target
- use Set as Target Platform and wait until the platform defition is loaded from Eclipse mirrors
now there should be no build errors anymore
use Run | Debug As | Eclipse Application and wait until the new Eclipse instance is opened
use EasyShell, set breakpoint etc. :)

go to project EasyShell
build
- from Eclipse: run launch configuration EasyShell-Testing-Build
- from commandline / headless / CI server: mvn clean verify with parameter site.dir=testing: mvn -Dsite.dir=testing clean verify
go to project de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.site and use one of:
- directory target\repository OR
- zip file e.g. target\de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.site-2.3.0-SNAPSHOT.zip OR
- last version from updates\testing
deploy
- new automatic pre-process
  - create or reset branch testing* to latest from main and push, e.g. branch name testing-my-new-build
    - new PR with the new build will be automatically created for you
    - wait for PR to be merged to main by a maintainer
  - ask maintainer to create and push new tag at main branch for a pre-release with naming patterns
    - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-alpha*
    - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-beta*
    - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-rc*
  - new pre-release tag will be auomatically picked up and new pre-release will be created with changelog and new update site at gh-pages
- old deprecated manual process as fallback
  - synchronize the directory updates\testing to project EasyShell-gh-pages directory testing
  - commit and push project EasyShell-gh-pages to GitHub and check the new version from site http://anb0s.github.io/EasyShell/testing

go to project EasyShell
build
- from Eclipse: run launch configuration EasyShell-Release-Build
- from commandline / headless / CI server: mvn clean verify with parameter site.dir=release: mvn -Dsite.dir=release clean verify
go to project de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.site and use one of:
- directory target\repository OR
- zip file e.g. target\de.anbos.eclipse.easyshell.site-2.3.0-SNAPSHOT.zip OR
- last version from directory updates\release
deploy
- new automatic pre-process
  - create or reset branch release* to latest from main and push, e.g. branch name testing-my-new-release
    - new PR with the new build will be automatically created for you
    - wait for PR to be merged to main by a maintainer
  - ask maintainer to create and push new tag at main branch for a release with naming patterns
    - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+
  - new release tag will be auomatically picked up and new release will be created with changelog and new update site at gh-pages
- old deprecated manual process as fallback
  - synchronize the directory updates\release to project EasyShell-gh-pages directory release
  - commit and push project EasyShell-gh-pages to GitHub and check the new version from site http://anb0s.github.io/EasyShell