Re[2]: [higgins-dev] build: what are these files?

[Valery Kokhan <vkokhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I did look at build.properties from that view, and that's when I
> noticed they were out of date.  The Bundle-Classpath in the manifest
> has up-to-date jar dependencies, while the list in build.properties
> was rather old and was only a subset of what was in the Bundle-Classpath.

build.properties defines all jars which plugin should contains (to use
at runtime) but it is not a requirement for Eclipse plugins to
contains all the jars required (to build it) - it could depends on
another plugin which already contains missing jars and exports
packages from them.

> I see that the pluginBuilder auto-generates some build.properties, but in a temp.dir.

It is another story... That build.properties is very specific for
plugin build process and have no relation to build.properties from the
project at all.

> Are we sure that the build.properties found at the root of our
> projects is still used?  If so, do we need to bring them up to date
> with what's in our manifest files?

> Jim
>  
>>>> Valery Kokhan <vkokhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 10/13/07 3:01 PM >>> 
> Jim,

> If you open plugin's manifest (either "META-INF\MANIFEST.MF" or
> "plugin.xml") file in the Eclipse IDE to edit plugin's properties
> you'll see build.properties as one of the tabs there.

> So, "build.properties" is a Eclipse plugin specific file which (along
> with "META-INF\MANIFEST.MF" and\or "plugin.xml" files) contains all the
> information required to build Eclipse plugin.

> As for buildaux.xml.old_ files they actually could be removed now -
> they are just renamed buildaux.xml files which we used before started
> to generate them.

> Valery

> Saturday, October 13, 2007, 11:12:53 PM, you wrote:

>> nearly every project has a "build.properties" and "buildaux.xml.old_"

>> Do these serve any purpose? If not let's delete them -- they only
>> serve to confuse the person trying to get their head around the already confusing build process.

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