[pde-dev] creating a p2 update archive

[John Cortell <rat042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to figure out how create an update archive for a feature
locally, using pde-build. I'm close, but not quite there. I'm hoping
someone can point me in the right direction.

1. I invoke the eclipse.buildScript Ant task on the feature-plugin
and it produces all the build.xmls for the feature and all the plugins
the feature contains. So far so good.
2. I invoke the default target (build.update.jar) of the feature
build.xml generated by (1), and it compiles every project and produces a
jar at the root of each project directory. Still looking good.
3. Now I'm looking to produce a zip file that contains all the jars
produced by (2), same as if I'd done an "Export Feature"
operation on the plugin-feature. I see no target in  the feature
build.xml generated by (1) that will give me that. There's the
zip.distribution target, which I've used in the past. It produces
a zip with all the bits pertaining to the feature (including all its
plugins), but the contents are in the "old-school" way of
distributing features. I would expect a target that does the same thing
but for p2.

John