1 <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> 2 <html> 3 <head> 4 <title>Eclipse Corner</title> 5 <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://dev.eclipse.org/default_style.css"> 6 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 7 </head> 8 <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b" alink="#ff0000"> 9 <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 10 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> 11 <p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Releases</font></b> <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> 12 </font>Releases are builds that have been declared major releases by the development 13 team - for example "R1.0". Releases are the right builds for people 14 who want to be on a stable, tested release, and don't need the latest greatest 15 features and improvements. <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Release 16 builds always have an "R" at the beginning of the name i.e. R1.0, R2.0 17 etc. Non-release builds are named according to the date of the build - for example 18 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 19 Builds</font></b> <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Stable builds 20 are integration builds that have been found to be stable enough for most people 21 to use. They are promoted from integration build to stable build by the architecture 22 team after they have been used for a few days and deemed reasonably stable. The 23 latest stable build is the right build for people who want to stay up to date 24 with what is going on in the latest development stream, and don't mind putting 25 up with a few problems in order to get the latest greatest features and bug fixes. 26 The latest stable build is the one the development team likes people to be using, 27 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> 28 <p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Integration Builds</font></b> 29 <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Periodically, component teams 30 version off their work in what they believe is a stable, consistent state, and 31 they update the build configuration to indicate that the next integration build 32 should take this version of the component. Integration builds are built from these 33 stable component versions that have been specified by each component team as the 34 best version available. Integration builds may be promoted to stable builds after 35 a few days of testing. Integration builds are built whenever new stable component 36 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 37 Builds</font></b><br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva"> Nightly builds 38 are produced over night from whatever has been released into the HEAD stream of 39 the CVS repository. They are completely untested and will almost always have major 40 problems. Many will not work at all. These drops are normally only useful to developers 41 actually working on the <your project>.<BR> <BR>Note: Nightly builds are 42 produced only as requested, and not necessarily every night, by developers to 43 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> 44 <p><b><font face="arial,helvetica,geneva" size="-1">Maintenance Builds</font></b> 45 <br> <font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,geneva">Periodically builds for maintenance 46 of the current release will be performed. They will not necessarily be stable 47 builds. When the maintenace is finalized and released, it will be moved up to 48 a Release build. If the build name starts with an "M" i.e. M20031110, 49 then it has not been tested for stability. If it is a release candidate, i.e. 50 0.5.0.1RC1, then it is a stable maintenance build.</font></p></td></tr> </table><h3> </h3> 51 </body> 52 </html> 53
