Defining the new property:
will cause a few changes for feature builds. See also the page for feature metadata layout.
In particular, instead of producing per-platform archives, the build will produce a single p2 repository which is a group of all the platforms. Effectively this is forcing an implicit groupConfigurations=true.
The following is a list of related properties (old and new):
| p2.gathering | Set to true to turn on p2 publisher based builds. |
| p2.build.repo | A URI to the local build time p2 repository, default is file:${buildDirectory}/buildRepo. Results will be mirrored from here to the final archive location. |
| groupConfigurations | p2.gathering=true has the implicit effect of setting groupConfigurations=true. To control the output format of the archive use the group.group.group configuration. |
| generate.p2.metadata | This is property for the old metadata generator integration. It has no effect when p2.gathering=true. |
| p2.metadata.repo p2.artifact.repo |
These properties were associated with generate.p2.metadata and have no effect on feature builds when p2.gathering=true because the default behaviour in this case is to create a p2 repository. (However, these properties do affect product builds). |
| p2.metadata.repo.name p2.artifact.repo.name | Optional, these properties will be used to name the final feature repository. |
| p2.compress | Set to true to compress the final feature repository xml into a jar. |
| p2.flavor | No effect for feature builds, but does affect product builds. |
| p2.publish.artifacts | No effect when p2.gathering=true (Old property) |
| p2.root.name p2.root.version | No effect when p2.gathering=true (Old property) |
| p2.context.repos | Define context repositories. See reusing metadata. |
| repoBaseLocation | A folder containing repositories to transform using <p2.repo2runnable>. See also reusing metadata. |
| transformedRepoLocation | The folder containing the output of <p2.repo2runnable>. See also reusing metadata. |
| p2.category.site | A URL to a site.xml file used to define categories. |
| p2.category.definition | A URL to a category.xml file used to define categories. |
| p2.category.prefix | Define a prefix to ensure unique ids for category IUs generated from site/category files that don't use unique names. |
| skipMirroring | Skip the mirroring step, no final archive is created. Build results are found in ${p2.build.repo}. |