[news.eclipse.technology.ajdt] Re: Binary cycles while exporting RCP pro

[Andrew Eisenberg <andrew.eisenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I got the bugzilla mail. Good news. What should I do to try it out? download
> a nightly build of AJDT for Galileo? or it is already published thru the
> update site.

It will be available from the dev update site:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/35/dev/update

It is not available yet, but should be within a few hours.  Look at the time
stamp for the build available from the site to see if it is the one produced
today.

> Early next week would be pretty fine for me. I'm adding myself to this bug's
> CC list right now so I get notified when you post it.
Good.

> It would be really cool. There would be lot of people using aspectj in RCP
> products who need to build "headlesslly"

Well, when I asked on the bug report and on the mailing list who would be
interested in having this feature available from the update site, I got no
responses, so I assumed there was little interest.

> 
> Last question.
> Is this build delegating on PDE one so it only replaces PDE for compiling?
> I ask it to know if I must contact you for problems (not related to
> AspectsJ) in the headless build process if I'm using this script or I should
> contact PDE folks.
What we do, and this is the reason why it is not "officially" supported, is
that we branch the PDE build plugin and make the appropriate changes so that
AJDT can be built.  The only substantial change that we have made is to
delegate to ajc instead of javac, but this small change cascades into a few
other changes elsewhere in the plugin.

It will probably work on other projects, but we have not tested it in detail
(nor do we have the capacity to).

--a