[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: PDE Build: building Source feature.

[Vasant <VMarathe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> Vasant,
> I assume you are making reference to this fine article:
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html
>
>
> > Using this, I get the distributable zip file as I want but it includes
> > all zip files of the plug-ins source code.
> > My question is, are the source code zips supposed to be included in the
> > binary distributable?  I want all the source code zips to go to a
> > different zip file. I have a limited idea about building source features.
>
> What you get is a feature, and a plugin extending
> org.eclipse.pde.core.source.
> The plugin contains only the sources as a zip.
> The whole zip will contain everything, binary plugins and source plugins as
> well as the related features.
> If you want two different zips one with source only, the other without
> sources, check how this is done:
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.releng.eclipsebuilder/
> Each directory corresponds to a set of builds.
> You might need a bit of customization of the customTargets.xml to accomplish
> what you want as Eclipse is typically distributed as binaries only or
> binaries+sources.
Thanks, a lot, Philippe for your reply.
Yes, I was making reference to the same link.

I will go through the link you have provided and see if it explains what 
I need to do. It would also be great if you could let me know which 
folder I can take a look at from the link you have sent, because the 
link contains many different folders.

Thanks again.
Vasant.