Eclipse RCP: how to export launch configuration plugins?

Question

Note: This is not a duplicate of any question regarding problems with product export: I can already export successfully both within gui and with headless pde build.

I am developing a RCP application on eclipse Indigo (3.7), which is in the final stages before release. The branding product, in its own plugin, is feature based and includes:

• myapp main (and unique) feature
• org.eclipse.rcp
• org.eclipse.equinox.p2.feature
• org.eclipse.help

The main feature collects (includes) all of the plugins composing the application plus the minimum required set of plugins from org.eclipse.rcp and org.eclipse.equinox.p2 features; it depends on the plugins needed for p2 self-provisioning and the minimum set of platform plugins needed for my application to run.

Then I had to add translations, and added a snapshot of eclipse-babel to the target.

This is the situation:

• I synchronize the product
• I launch the product generating a new launch configuration
  • --> only some parts of the GUI are translated
• I open launch configuration - plugins tab - and click "add required plugins"
• The number of included plugins increases (from about 130 to about 180)
  • --> now when I start the application everything is translated

So I had to manually copy the fragments included in the launch after clicking "select required", to the feature includes (only the fragments containing translation, actually). That fixed it.

Question: is there a method to export the list of plugins currently selected in the launch configuration? or any other method which synchronizes what is included in the launch configuration with what is included in the feature (not the contrary)?

Answer 1

File->Export->Launch Configuration doesn't work for you?