Re: [tycho-user] Building a documentation index with Tycho

[Igor Fedorenko <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this sounds about right. I am curious to know if you were able to
make it work and if there is anything we can provide in Tycho code to
make this sort of extensions easier to implement. Or maybe we can
provide generic mojo to execution eclipse applications...

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Regards,
Igor

On 11-11-29 1:16 PM, Marc-Andre Laperle wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new to Maven and Tycho. I would like to build the index for
> documentation using Tycho (for CDT). The steps for doing this with PDE
> build are described here:
> http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Fguide%2Fua_help_setup_preindex.htm
>
>
> Basically Eclipse's antRunner application needs to be used to execute a
> Ant task, build.index. Has anyone tried to achieve something similar
> with Tycho?
>
> I attempted to wrap the execution of the application in a simple Ant
> task that would then execute antRunner but this doesn't work since the
> launcher can't find the dependencies. Instead, I created a Mojo that
> works similarly to the TestMojo in tycho-surefire-plugin. It creates an
> "Eclipse Installation" (including creating the config.ini) then executes
> antRunner successfully.
>
> Is this the right approach? If so, would the Tycho project be interested
> in including this Mojo/plugin?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Marc-Andre
>
> For reference, the bug I'm trying to fix:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350828
> and the Egit equivalent
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350861
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