[babel-dev] Re: Build process, p2 metadata

[Kit Lo <kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>As I mentioned in the newsgroup,
I've had the best results by unzipping the plugins into dropins and throwing
the features away. 
>
>Sean, if we don't include the features, do you know if we will have
any problems un-installing or disabling the languages packs in Eclipse.
(A user who does not use the language packs may want to do that.) 
>
>I'm going to test that. 

While testing the effect of not including the features in our language
packs, I noticed that our features may have some problems. I unzipped the
Babel language pack for the Eclipse project (BabelLanguagePack-eclipse-en_AA_3.5.0.v20090524043402.zip)
into "eclipse-jee-galileo-RC1-win32.zip" and "eclipse-SDK-3.5RC1-win32.zip".
Somehow, Eclipse does not list our Babel language pack features as installed
features. The plug-in fragments were loaded though, as orphan plug-ins
with no parents.

That could be the reason why the p2
metadata generated by Gabe did not include any features (that's just a
guess). Please help investigate to see if there is anything wrong with
our Babel language pack features.

Thanks,
Kit Lo
IBM Eclipse SDK Globalization Technical Lead
Eclipse Babel Project Co-lead