[pde-dev] Controlling the pde build to change the content of bundles.inf

[Serge Beauchamp <serge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I've been working on producing a PDE build of the eclipse 3.4.1 sources 
for some time, and although it mostly works, one that that still eludes 
me is that the bundles.info file generated by the build process contains 
the following line:

org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins,1.0.2.R34x_v20080909,file:plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins_1.0.2.R34x_v20080909.jar,4,false

instead of the following in an official Eclipse build:

org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins,1.0.2.R34x_v20080909,file:plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins_1.0.2.R34x_v20080909.jar,4,true

(noticed the "false" as the auto start flag instead of the "true").  
This obviously cause adverse effects, since not having the 
p2.reconciler.dropins started automatically prevents all additional 
plugins to be started as well.

I've looked at changing the content of  writeBundlesTxt() in 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.P2Utils and 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.P2Utils so that there's a special 
case for the p2.reconciler.dropins plugins, as follows:

               if 
("org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator".equals(modelName)) { //$NON-NLS-1$
                   bundleMap.put(desc, "1:true"); //$NON-NLS-1$
// those 2 lines below added:
               } else if 
("org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins".equals(modelName)) { 
//$NON-NLS-1$
                   bundleMap.put(desc, "4:true"); //$NON-NLS-1$
               } else if 
("org.eclipse.equinox.common".equals(modelName)) { //$NON-NLS-1$
                   bundleMap.put(desc, "2:true"); //$NON-NLS-1$

But that code path doesn't even seems to be called. 

Does anyone has some leads about where should I investigate to be sure 
that the p2.reconciler.dropins gets the proper "true" auto start flag in 
the bundles.info file?

Thanks!

Serge Beauchamp
Software Engineer
Freescale Semiconductor