Fw: [platform-releng-dev] Wanna be JAR'd?

[DJ Houghton <DJ_Houghton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, thank you for all your responses. In all, every team in the SDK said
that they wished to JAR up their plug-ins. Plug-ins which are a part of the
RCP SDK were sucessfully JAR'd for the M6 build and now we are ready to
convert the rest. We are targeting this coming Tuesday's integration build
to shake out any problems that may arise.

We recommend that you follow Wassim's email and convert to using a
MANIFEST.MF file first, and then follow our "5 Steps to JAR'd Success" to
JAR your plug-in.

As a review, the steps are:
1). Change the classpath.
2). Update the build.properties file.
3). Update the feature. (contact RelEng)
4). Let Adrian know you have JAR'd your plug-in. (legal)
5). Update "about" content.

Full details are here:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/3.1/run_from_jars.html


Please let us know if you have any problems.

Thanks.

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As you know, we are pushing towards shipping as many plugins as possible as
jars for 3.1.  Our initial goal is to have all the RCP plugins done for M6.
Lots of information on this is available at

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/3.1/run_from_jars.html


The core team has been running their entire Eclipse installs in this mode
for some time now and we're feeling pretty good about it.  To be sure
however, there are workflows that we have not encountered.  Some of these
may raise issues.  That's where you come in.

We are looking for teams to step up and be JAR'd for the March 22nd
integration build.  We will do all the work and explain to you what is
happening.  You just kick back and let us at some of your files and then
tell us about any problems you or your users encounter.

The Core Team