[tycho-user] Building a documentation index with Tycho

[Marc-Andre Laperle <malaperle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Maven and Tycho. I would like to build the index for 
documentation using Tycho (for CDT). The steps for doing this with PDE 
build are described here:
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Fguide%2Fua_help_setup_preindex.htm

Basically Eclipse's antRunner application needs to be used to execute a 
Ant task, build.index. Has anyone tried to achieve something similar 
with Tycho?

I attempted to wrap the execution of the application in a simple Ant 
task that would then execute antRunner but this doesn't work since the 
launcher can't find the dependencies. Instead, I created a Mojo that 
works similarly to the TestMojo in tycho-surefire-plugin. It creates an 
"Eclipse Installation" (including creating the config.ini) then executes 
antRunner successfully.

Is this the right approach? If so, would the Tycho project be interested 
in including this Mojo/plugin?

Thanks!

Marc-Andre

For reference, the bug I'm trying to fix:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350828
and the Egit equivalent
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350861