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Re: [tycho-dev] eclipse-feature packaging produces unneeded META-INF/... directory structure

Hi,

I'm +1 - I also posted to cross-platform because when looking to my
Eclipse install I see others like jgit, rap.tools also produceing those
unneeded artifacts.

Tom

On 24.10.14 10:02, Sievers, Jan wrote:
> I'm wondering if we should change the default to 
> 
> addMavenDescriptor=false
> 
> for features only as their archives are always extracted in the installation.
> While this is a windows path length problem really, probably not worth it causing any headaches (the maven descriptor is not strictly needed),  so just change the default value.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Jan
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tycho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tycho-dev-
>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Schindl
>> Sent: Freitag, 24. Oktober 2014 09:42
>> To: tycho-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [tycho-dev] eclipse-feature packaging produces unneeded
>> META-INF/... directory structure
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ok - I found out that CBI built projects don't have that problem and so
>> google pointed me towards
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=401040
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On 24.10.14 09:15, Tom Schindl wrote:
>>> One more note this extra dir is really causing problems to me when
>>> packaging my application with InnoSetup!
>>>
>>> Any thoughts anyone?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On 24.10.14 08:53, Tom Schindl wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just saw when building with tycho i get an additional META-INF/...
>>>> directory structure in my final build.
>>>>
>>>> While from a since perspective this is completely irrelevant my
>> problem
>>>> the paths that can be produced there are a potential problem on
>> windows
>>>> where long paths can lead to all sorts of problems.
>>>>
>>>> So:
>>>> a) is that substructure really needed?
>>>> b) if no, can we get rid if it?
>>>>
>>>> Tom
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