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[news.eclipse.tools.buckminster] Re: Best way to include launchers in an RCP build 
Hi Tas,

On 08/12/2009 06:12 PM, Tas Frangoullides wrote:
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If I add the application plug-in to the configuration tab of the product
configuration the product works. What's happening here? Is PDE adding
some configuration by default?

Not sure what you're saying here. Are you trying to build a product without including the plug-in that defines the application, and that fails with Buckminster but works with PDE-build?

If that's the case, I'd consider it a bug in PDE-build rather then a bug in Buckminster. The general rule is that all bundles necessary to run the application must be present either in the product configuration or in a feature that the configuration is referencing. Why would the application bundle be exempt from that rule?

Also, looking at the issue of having to include the executables feature,
it has another unpleasant side effect of making the feature available in
the resulting p2 repository which I don't want.

Can you please file a bugzilla for this? The equinox executable feature is not intended for runtimes. It's to be considered a pure build-time feature and the inclusion of it should be necessary.

I really want to have a buckminster build which can produce similar
results from the same source currently processed by a PDE build. I think
many people migrating from PDE Build to buckminster will want this.

To workaround these issues I am having to consider using buckminster
only for materializing the target platform and fetching the source and
then handing things over to PDE Build for to create the p2 repository.
However I would lose the revision based qualifier substitution which I
find very useful. Any suggestions as to how I can work around would be
greatly appreciate. Maybe it's easier to help resolve these problem in
buckminster?

I agree that this can be improved and as I said earlier, we're working on it. Please set the priority on the bugzilla to major and stay tuned :-)

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren