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a feature project including sources [message #753868]

Sat, 29 October 2011 17:31

Lorenzo Bettini

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Hi

when I create a feature project, which I use in an update site project,
I'd like also to create the corresponding source plugins (i.e., besides
creating 'myplugin' feature, I'd like also to have 'myplugin SDK'
feature). Similarly to export a plugin together with its sources...

However, I found no direct way of doing this...

any clue please?
thanks in advance
Lorenzo

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Re: a feature project including sources [message #754097 is a reply to message #753868]

Mon, 31 October 2011 18:32

Paul Webster

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Are you using PDE to build your plugins? I believe you have to create a source feature that matches your regular feature, and build both (we use a master feature that describes all features we want built).

See http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tasks/pde_source_generation.htm and http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDEBuild/Individual_Source_Bundles

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Re: a feature project including sources [message #755712 is a reply to message #754097]

Wed, 09 November 2011 11:20

Stewart Francis

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi, we're using PDE Build to create our plugins and features headlessly and I'm trying to achieve a similar thing, specifically:

1 update site with binary features and plugins for public consumption
1 update site with corresponding source features and plugins for internal consumption

I've had a look at the documentation you referenced and had some success. However, I can only get PDE Build to generate a source feature (and plugins) for my feature when I specifically include the source feature in my origin feature, as referenced here: http://www.wickedshell.net/blog/?p=101

This is obviously not ideal, as I wouldn't be able to install the origin feature independently to the source. I had a look at the JDT feature in CVS and as far as I can tell it doesn't seem to work this way - I couldn't see any generate.feature directive in the build.properties (though it's entirely possible that I was looking in the wrong place Wink

)

Could someone point me at an example of how some eclipse component builds a distinct source feature? Or maybe tell me how I can get PDE Build to generate a source feature without having to specifically include it in my origin feature (and ideally into a seperate build repository).

Thanks in advance,

Stew

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