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Bug 16511

Summary: "Create Plug-in Jars" fails for imported plugins
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Jed Anderson <jed.anderson>
Component: UIAssignee: Dejan Glozic <dejan>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: rodrigo
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: 2.0 F3   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Jed Anderson CLA 2002-05-20 20:25:26 EDT 
Build: 20020519

If I run the "Create Plug-in Jars" action on a the "Hello, World" plugin example
it works fine, but if I run it on any plugin I have imported using the plugin
import wizard it fails.

To reproduce this bug.

1. New workspace.
2. Import org.apache.ant as binary project
3. Import the rest of the plugins as a source projects
4. Right click the plugin.xml in org.eclipse.debug.core
5. Select "Create Plug-in Jars"
6. Hit finish

Notice that the jars are not created.
Comment 1 Dejan Glozic CLA 2002-05-20 20:53:55 EDT 
This is because build.properties is missing and build requires it.

I guess PDE can create a dummy build.properties since it is also creating dummy 
source folders, but I am afraid we are on a slippery slope here. How realistic 
is all this - for user to import binary project with source extraction and then 
build them?
Comment 2 Dejan Glozic CLA 2002-06-04 19:20:03 EDT 
F3 candidate.
Comment 3 Dejan Glozic CLA 2002-06-07 10:20:38 EDT 
*** Bug 16389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Dejan Glozic CLA 2002-06-07 11:53:51 EDT 
Implemented by creating build.properties with entries corresponding to the 
newly created source folders.