Re: [platform-releng-dev] Purpose of generate.feature@inbuild.properties

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Alexander and Dani for the clarification.

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Megert
<daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> IMHO, could safely be deleted.
>
> Just because we build using Tycho doesn't mean someone is still building it
> using PDE Build. We also don't remove redundant properties from the
> build.properties files.
>
> Dani
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> From:        Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date:        12.01.2016 12:30
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lars Vogel" <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Eclipse platform release engineering list."
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>> Sent: Tuesday, 12 January, 2016 1:04:30 PM
>> Subject: [platform-releng-dev] Purpose of generate.feature@ in
>> build.properties
>>
>> Friends of Platform releng,
>>
>> I'm noticed generate.feature@ entries in the build.properties of
>> several features in releng. I have
>> not noticed such entries before.
>>
>> How is this information used?
>
> Hey Lars,
> I think this is leftover from the old pde.build. See [1] for how it was
> used.
> With Tycho generating source features nowadays all these generate.feature
> directives are configurations for tycho-source-feature-plugin in the
> respective feature pom.xml.
> IMHO, could safely be deleted.
>
> [1]
> http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.pde.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Fpde_source_generation.htm
>
>
>
> Alexander Kurtakov
> Red Hat Eclipse team
>
>>
>> For example in org.eclipse.sdk (feature)
>>
>>
>> generate.feature@org.eclipse.platform.source=org.eclipse.platform,feature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.source,feature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.source;optional="true",plugin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;unpack="false",\
>>   plugin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.source;version=1.8.4.qualifier;unpack="false",\
>>   plugin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.source;version=0.1.46.qualifier;unpack="false",\
>>   exclude@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Best regards, Lars
>>
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