According to Eclipse Help > Help Contents: Plug-in Development Environment Guide > Tasks >
PDE Build Advanced Topics > Adding Files to the Root of a Build, value(s) of root are a comma
separated list of relative paths to folder(s). The contents of the folder are included as
root files to the installation. Exception are if a list value starts with: 'file:',
'absolute:' or 'absolute:file:'. 'file:' indicates that the included content is a file only.
'absolute:' indicates that the path is absolute. Examples:
- root=rootfiles1, rootfiles2, license.html
- root=file:license.html
- root=absolute:/rootfiles1
- root=absolute:file:/eclipse/about.html
- root.folder.adir:rootfiles1
Configurations like root.<os.ws.arch> is also supported here as well as
root.<os.ws.arch>.folder.<subfolder> Following wrongly specified cases are simply
ignored when trying to find root files
- root = license.html -> licence.html exists but is not a directory (contrary to PDE
product export where build fails )
- root = file:not_existing_file.txt, not_existing_dir -> specified file or directory does
not exist
- root = file:C:/_tmp/file_absolute.txt -> existing file with absolute path;but not
specified as absolute
- root = file:absolute:C:/_tmp/file_absolute.txt -> Using 'file:absolute:' (instead of
correct 'absolute:file:')