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Bug 246873

Summary: [workspace] Plugin exporter should support exporting plugins from their output folder
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: aniefer, baumanbr, bugs.eclipse.org, caniszczyk, daniel.kruegler, daniel_megert, eclipse, heath.borders, jeffmcaffer, markus.kell.r, milesparker, pd, philippe_mulet, wassim.melhem
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Andrew Niefer CLA 2008-09-10 10:48:04 EDT 
Doing this will require changes in both UI & build

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #101241 +++

N20050622-0010

AFAIK, the plugin exporter currently builds a plugin's class files from scratch
before it packages the whole plugin. What I request is an option to tell the pde
exporter to build the plugin with the normal eclipse build mechanisms, and then
take the contents of the output ("bin") folders to package the plugin.

This would speed up plugin-exports quite a bit, and it would probably solve bug
66177 and bug 101229.
Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:10:04 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
Comment 2 Julian Honnen CLA 2019-09-09 02:31:36 EDT 
Please remove the stalebug flag, if this issue is still relevant and can be reproduced on the latest release.