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| project> 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> |
| <p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Releases</font></b> <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> |
| </font>Releases are builds that have been declared major releases by the development |
| team - for example "R1.0". Releases are the right builds for people |
| who want to be on a stable, tested release, and don't need the latest greatest |
| features and improvements. <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Release |
| builds always have an "R" at the beginning of the name i.e. R1.0, R2.0 |
| etc. Non-release builds are named according to the date of the build - for example |
| 20011027 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 |
| Builds</font></b> <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Stable builds |
| are integration builds that have been found to be stable enough for most people |
| to use. They are promoted from integration build to stable build by the architecture |
| team after they have been used for a few days and deemed reasonably stable. The |
| latest stable build is the right build for people who want to stay up to date |
| with what is going on in the latest development stream, and don't mind putting |
| up with a few problems in order to get the latest greatest features and bug fixes. |
| The latest stable build is the one the development team likes people to be using, |
| because 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> |
| <p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Integration Builds</font></b> |
| <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Periodically, component teams |
| version off their work in what they believe is a stable, consistent state, and |
| they update the build configuration to indicate that the next integration build |
| should take this version of the component. Integration builds are built from these |
| stable component versions that have been specified by each component team as the |
| best version available. Integration builds may be promoted to stable builds after |
| a few days of testing. Integration builds are built whenever new stable component |
| versions 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 |
| Builds</font></b><br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Nightly builds |
| are produced over night from whatever has been released into the HEAD stream of |
| the CVS repository. They are completely untested and will almost always have major |
| problems. Many will not work at all. These drops are normally only useful to developers |
| actually working on the <your project>.<BR> <BR>Note: Nightly builds are |
| produced only as requested, and not necessarily every night, by developers to |
| build 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> |
| <p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Maintenance Builds</font></b> |
| <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva">Periodically builds for maintenance |
| of the current release will be performed. They will not necessarily be stable |
| builds. When the maintenace is finalized and released, it will be moved up to |
| a Release build. If the build name starts with an "M" i.e. M20031110, |
| then it has not been tested for stability. If it is a release candidate, i.e. |
| 0.5.0.1RC1, then it is a stable maintenance build.</font></p></td></tr> </table><h3> </h3> |
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