Re: [pde-build-dev] The difference between "assemble" and "package"

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Barrie, 

these files are definately used by feature
builds.  A product build is really just a feature build  with
the feature generated for you.

The generated assemble and package scripts
are called from the assemble and package targets in the main org.eclipse.pde.build/scripts/build.xml.
 (This build.xml is imported by the productBuild.xml)

-Andrew

"Barrie Treloar" <baerrach@xxxxxxxxx>
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On 2/28/07, Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Barrie, 
Essentially, the assemble is collecting the pieces that were built and
package is collecting the binary pieces.  The specific reasons for
this are likely lost in antiquity :) 
However, note that the package only runs if the property runPackager is
set, so it is possible to only collect the built pieces.
As well, the package is used by the packager.xml script to repackage previously
built zips. 

I can't remember if there are any issues with only doing the zip on the
package.  Take a look at the generateTarGZTasks and generateGZipTarget..
 Notice that the GZip target when assembling only runs if the runPackager
property is not set. 
You could make the zipping during assemble conditional on the packager
not running.  The only issue would be having the assemble fileset
available when we are generating for package. 

>From what I can tell assemble and package are only used in a product build.
Building plugins or features does not use these files (even though they
may get created by pde).

>From this I think I can move any archiving steps out of assemble and into
package, as long as I can get the assemble fileset available when running
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