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When you search the Eclipse.org web pages for documentation regarding PDE Build you'll get several out-dated or broken links: From the projects homepage http://www.eclipse.org/pde/pde-build/ you'll only get to http://www.eclipse.org/pde/pde-build/dev.php from where you get - a document from July 2003: http://www.eclipse.org/pde/pde-build/doc/usage.html - a 404 at http://www.eclipse.org/pde/pde-build/dev.html End of story From the Eclipse wiki searching for "pde.build" the best hit is http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng-faq from were you'll find - "How do I automate my builds with PDE Build?" -> a document from June 2005: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder/readme.html?content-type=text%2Fhtml&revision=HEAD From the PDE project summary http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=eclipse.pde you'll find a wiki page at http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE which links to http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE/Build containing some random hints. It says most useful information should be found here http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tasks/pde_feature_build.htm (obviously referring to Eclispe 3.2). Also note that the category "Category:PDE" referenced from http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE does not exist. BTW: I was searching for documentation on how PDE Build supports p2. None of the paths mentioned above gave useful results to that question. Starting from the p2 side results are *slightly* better.
http://help.eclipse.org will always redirect to the most recent docs, a search there should get what you want.
(In reply to comment #1) > http://help.eclipse.org will always redirect to the most recent docs, a search > there should get what you want. I was about to update the help-link in the wiki, but I could not find a version independent URL that points directly to anything related to PDE Build. BTW: I was not questioning that such documentation exists :) (I'm currently working with the built-in help), but there's so many cannonical ways to search for this information and almost all of them lead to dead ends. For someone who is not specialized on release engineering this can become quite frustrating.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > http://help.eclipse.org will always redirect to the most recent docs, a search > > there should get what you want. > > I was about to update the help-link in the wiki, but I could not find a version > independent URL that points directly to anything related to PDE Build. I raised bug 315416 for this
(In reply to comment #3) > I raised bug 315416 for this Thanks! (I wasn't aware that this is a general problem).
Updated http://wiki.eclipse.org/Pde.build to point to http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE/Build Updated wiki.eclipse.org/PDE/Build to point to galileo help for now Created category "PDE" and category "PDE/Build". Moved the build faq stuff to PDE/Build/FAQ
- updated http://www.eclipse.org/pde/pde-build/ - updated http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng-faq I think this covers everything. The PDE/Build wiki & faq can use some loving but that can be an ongoing thing.
