[pde-build-dev] Building the platform feature

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,
As a step in making Buckminster more PDE-build compliant, I'm now trying 
to build the whole org.eclipse.platform-feature feature and everything 
that it depends on and not surprisingly :-), I run into some problems.

The first thing I noticed was that many (most?) of the features that I 
find under the /cvsroot/eclipse have a stripped project descriptor 
files. The only element with content is the project name. I would have 
expected the 'org.eclipse.pde.FeatureNature' nature element there and 
perhaps also a buildCommand for the 'org.eclipse.pde.FeatureBuilder'. 
I'm curious. Why you are leaving this out?

I've also noted that the project names are not unique. You have a 
feature project called 'org.eclipse.rcp' and a plugin with the exact 
same name. Consequently, I cannot materialize both of them without 
inventing a new name for one of them. What conventions do you use when 
you do that?

Kind Regards,
Thomas Hallgren