[eclipse-dev] 3.0 stream build mechanism changing

["Sonia Dimitrov" <Sonia_Dimitrov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As of the N20030627 build, the 3.0 stream
Eclipse builds will start using the new script generation features of org.eclipse.pde.build
R3_0_early_access stream. 

The main effect this will have for plugin
contributors is that feature owners will no longer need to be informed
of plugin version changes.  Feature definitions will automatically
be updated with plugin version at build time.  However feature owners
should be informed if plugins are to be added or removed from a feature
defintion.

Other changes to note:

1.  Mac OSX downloads now in tar.gz
format
2.  There is now a Mac OSX specific
JDT binary download.
3.  Source build scripts have been
modified to the new PDE generated scripts.  The end result of a source
build is an installable Eclipse SDK runtime.

The changes in org.eclipse.pde.build
are too numerous to mention in this message.   An initial draft of
updates in the build.properties specification is available here:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.pde.build/notes/Attic/new%20features.txt?rev=1.1.2.1&_only_with_tag_=R3_0_early_access

Thanks,

Sonia