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[http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/pde-build/ PDEB] is The Way to headlessly build Eclipse- and RCP-based products. The best currently available guide to PDEB is still Markus Barchfeld's [http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html Build and Test Automation for plug-ins and features], though it's getting a bit old (having been written for eclipse-3.0). | [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/pde-build/ PDEB] is The Way to headlessly build Eclipse- and RCP-based products. The best currently available guide to PDEB is still Markus Barchfeld's [http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html Build and Test Automation for plug-ins and features], though it's getting a bit old (having been written for eclipse-3.0). | ||
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Revision as of 13:39, 17 November 2007
summary
This page is about building Eclipse- and RCP-based products (including Eclipse itself).
PDE Build
PDEB is The Way to headlessly build Eclipse- and RCP-based products. The best currently available guide to PDEB is still Markus Barchfeld's Build and Test Automation for plug-ins and features, though it's getting a bit old (having been written for eclipse-3.0).
Eclipse itself is using the PDE build infrastructure that it ships with the Plug-in Develeopment Environment. Ant is used to run the build, with adequate plug-points where in you can perform custom tasks such as instrumentation of code.
To get comfortable with ant:- http://ant.apache.org/manual - If you are new to ant
versioning
Plugins (including features and fragments) must specify their own versions as well as the versions of their dependencies appropriately.
information
See the eclipse team's plugin-versioning guidelines. You can also ask Pascal Rapicault or John Arthorne for their "Plug-in versioning" presentation.
tooling
Pascal Rapicault has created an application (org.eclipse.core.runtime.versionchecker.dependencyChecker) to "specify the ranges on all [your] required plug-ins."