[platform-debug-dev] Selfhosting

[Jared Burns <jaredburns@xxxxxxx>]

As DarinW mentioned last week, the classpaths of the Platform Debug and JDT 
Debug plug-ins have recently been changed to use PDE's "required plug-ins" 
support.

This means that you don't need to import required plug-ins into your workspace 
(as binary or otherwise) for our projects to compile. If the required 
plug-ins aren't in the workspace, PDE will use the plug-ins specified in the 
PDE->Target Platform preference page. By default, this points to the plug-ins 
that your host instance of Eclipse is running.

If you want to compile our plug-ins against a different set of required 
plug-ins, you can just point the Target Platform preference page to a 
different Eclipse install. Alternatively, you can import any subset of 
required plug-ins into the workspace and PDE will automatically use these 
instead.

The binary plug-ins are dead. Long live the binary plug-ins.

- Jared