Re: [pde-build-dev] Included features

[Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin you are right about the 'included
features' concept.
Unfortunately the support to build them
is only available in 3.0.

        PaScaL

"Martin Buechi" <Martin.Buechi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: pde-build-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 09/30/2003 12:42 PM Please respond to pde-build-dev

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All,

I am trying to understand the semantics of included
features (Advanced
Settings->Included Features, <includes> in feature.xml) in Eclipse
2.1.1. I
see in the Help (PDE Guide->Deploying a plug-in->Feature manifest
editor)
that "Larger features may be built by including other features, thus
creating a feature hierarchy." org.eclipse.sdk.win32-feature is an
example.

My own guess was that the ant build.xml script generated
with "Create Ant
Build File" from the feature.xml would reference the included features
to
also build them (zip.distribution could create the distributions in the
respective features or a single large distribution in the including
feature.). However, this is not the case. Why?

Is there any more documentation about the intended
semantics and usage of
features that include other features? Are they officially called composite
features?

Regards,

Martin



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