Oleg Mikheev wrote: > David Carver wrote: > >> You'll want to read this article: >> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-does-plugins/PDE-intro.html >> Basically, it's used so that it knows what to include in the JAR file. >> > > 'it knows' meaning 'Eclipse knows', right? > Or does ant4eclipse share the JAR producing code with Eclipse? > My understanding is that Ant 4 Eclipse uses these files to make sure that it is producing the same types of builds consistently that a user would get if they were to Export or build these classes from the Eclipse PDE user interface. To accomplish this it needs to read these same files.
The build.properties file while it may have some of the same items as the project file, is needed to specify the properties when a plugin or feature is created. So the Plugin tasks and Feature tasks within Ant 4 Eclipse need to have these files available. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ant4eclipse-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ant4eclipse-user
