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Re: [platform-debug-dev] Selfhosting

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=48096

If you're moved away from binary plug-ins yet, you've probably seen the above 
bug, which PDE has now fixed and released to HEAD. I recommend checking out 
the org.eclipse.pde.core plug-in, exporting it, and putting it into your host 
install.

- Jared

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:27 am, Jared Burns wrote:
> As DarinW mentioned last week, the classpaths of the Platform Debug and JDT
> Debug plug-ins have recently been changed to use PDE's "required plug-ins"
> support.
>
> This means that you don't need to import required plug-ins into your
> workspace (as binary or otherwise) for our projects to compile. If the
> required plug-ins aren't in the workspace, PDE will use the plug-ins
> specified in the PDE->Target Platform preference page. By default, this
> points to the plug-ins that your host instance of Eclipse is running.
>
> If you want to compile our plug-ins against a different set of required
> plug-ins, you can just point the Target Platform preference page to a
> different Eclipse install. Alternatively, you can import any subset of
> required plug-ins into the workspace and PDE will automatically use these
> instead.
>
> The binary plug-ins are dead. Long live the binary plug-ins.
>
> - Jared
>
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