[equinox-dev] OSGI Bundles: alternate manifest.mf location

[Ravindar Reddy <rroopreddy@xxxxxxxxx>]

PDE Plugin project requires a valid Manifest to be present under /meta-inf of the current OSGi bundle project in the workspace, and the PDE dependencies virtual classpath variable mounts the deps mentioned in the Manifest. Is there a way to use alternate location for OSGI MANIFEST.MF file (e.g: resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF)?

I created a sample OSGI project and moved to the file to resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF from META-INF/MANIFEST.MF. Updated "build.properties" to reflect this new location. The PDE generated errors and was unable to mount the plugin deps mentioned in manifest.mf.

Is META-INf location is hard-coded somehow?

Any help is appreciated, thanks
-Ravi R