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Re: [pde-build-dev] PDE builds and linked jar dependencies

On 6/11/07, Graham Leggett <minfrin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have been trying to get an eclipse plugin to build using PDE, and have
been trying to get this eclipse plugin to have its dependencies managed by
the maven-eclipse-plugin.
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I am trying to figure out what the "right" way to handle dependencies in a
PDE build is.

I'm using http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin, which just calls
out to Ant to run the PDE build, and
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/ to copy the
dependencies into a "lib" folder.

This works, but is a bit heavy handed and the lib folder contents get
stale very easily.

I am trying very hard to get the various project teams out there
working on this to start collaborating as their is some overlap.  But
I can't say I am having much success.
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Eclipse+Integration lists
some options available for further investigation.


Do linked resources work from PDE? Is there some other technique that
should be used to handle dependencies instead of linked resources instead?

I've been hacking through the PDE source because we include 800Mb of
GIS map data and the build is very slow > 20 minutes because of
inefficiencies with using zip (it uses update multiple times which
does a copy of the 800Mb each time it wants to update only a few
files).

I did some investigation to see if linked resources worked and from
what I can tell the answer is that linked resources are not supported.
I have a need to support linked resources too, so there is a chance I
might find the time to hook it in, but that will be a long time in
coming (and then it need to be approved as part of the patch process)


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