Re: [pde-dev] recommended way of adding platform-specific plugins during

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The director should not be used to populate
the target, since as you've seen it can only install for a particular platform.

PDE/Build uses the p2.repo2runnable
task to populate targets with p2 content (it doesn't care about the platform).

I would suggest using p2.mirror [1]
with slicing options to mirror just your feature and its requirements to
a local repo.  (Specifying nested <iu/> elements will mirror
only those IUs and their dependencies instead of the entire repo).  Then
transform that repo into a shape that can be used in the build by either
specifying the location to PDE/Build with repoBaseLocation [2] or calling
p2.repo2runnable yourself.

-Andrew

[1] http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_publishingtasks.htm
[2] http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tasks/pde_p2_reusingmetadata.htm

From:	Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>
To:	"Eclipse PDE general developers list." <pde-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	08/19/2009 07:42 AM
Subject:	Re: [pde-dev] recommended way of adding platform-specific plugins        during pdebuild
Sent by:	pde-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi Jacek,

On 08/19/2009 01:34 PM, Jacek Pospychała wrote:
> Thanks Thomas,
> UI point of view sounds good.
> Do you know how to tell that to p2.director in command line?
> Or how to tell to PDEBuild to tell p2.director... :-)
>
> thanks
>
> Jacek
>
>    
The p2.director cannot be used for populating platform agnostic target
platforms. It is designed to configure runtimes only. The only tool that
I know of that is capable of setting target platform definitions from 
the command line is Buckminster. It will enable you to do things like:

buckminster importtargetdefinition [--active] <uri or path>

where <uri or path> is a .target file that you have created and exported
using the UI.

Full documentation here: 
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/buckminster/doc/BuckyBook.pdf

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren


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