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[eclipse-dev] Target Platform Changes
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Dear Eclipse Plug-in Developers,
In 3.5M5, the PDE team added a new experimental preference page supporting managing and
editing of multiple target platforms:
Plug-in Development > Target Platform (Experimental).
In the latest i-build (20090224-0800), this page has become the default
way of managing target platforms and the
old page was removed. The page
displays all targets defined in the workspace. You can change the
target platform used to build workspace plug-ins by checking it in the
table. A wizard allows you to add and edit target platform definitions.
You can seed a target platform from existing templates (for example, an
RCP application), default settings, current target platform settings
or start from scratch. Target definitions created from the preference
page, by default, are stored locally in your workspace metadata. You
can add plug-ins to a target definition from various sources: a
directory, an installation (this looks at the list of INSTALLED
bundles), a feature, or a repository (update site). You can also scope
which plug-ins or features make up a target definition. Also, you can
create a target definition from the
New -> File -> Plug-in Development -> Target Definition wizard and share it with your friends (use variables if you want a target definition to be shareable).
Please note that this is a change to how people worked with target
platforms before. In the past, you just pointed to a directory and
magic happened. This was a very brittle way of working with targets and
wasn't conducive to sharing with teammates. In the future, look for PDE to support target platform materialization from p2 repositories and
the much requested feature of multiple targets per workspace.
If you find any issues with the new target platform story, issues with the new target workflow or have
suggestions, please file a bug against PDE with a starting summary of
"[target] xxx"
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=PDEThank you for using PDE.
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Chris Aniszczyk | EclipseSource Austin | +1 860 839 2465
http://twitter.com/caniszczyk |
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