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+HOW TO PACKAGE THE SOURCE OF THE PLUGINS FOR RELEASE.
+
+Note: this is only useful before we move to the public source repository, after which this will
+be obsolete.
+
+The source archive must contains:
+1/ Source of the EPL plugins that are released.
+2/ Any closed source dependencies that were created by Google.
+3/ The readme file explaining how to build the plugins.
+
+
+1/ PLUGIN SOURCE
+
+The Plugins that are currently released and that are EPL are:
+- Android Developer Tools => com.android.ide.eclipse.adt
+- Common                  => com.android.ide.eclipse.common
+- Android Editors         => com.android.ide.eclipse.editors
+
+All three plugins are located in
+    device/tools/eclipse/plugins/
+
+Before packing them up, it is important to:
+- remove the bin directory if it exists
+- remove any symlinks to jar files from the top level folder of each plugin
+
+2/ PLUGIN DEPENDENCIES
+
+The plugin dependencies are jar files embedded in some of the plugins. Some of those jar files
+are android libraries for which the source code is not yet being released (They will be released
+under the APL).
+
+Those libraries are not part of the SDK, and need to be taken from a engineering build.
+They will be located in
+    device/out/host/<platform>/framework/
+
+The libraries to copy are:
+ - layoutlib_api.jar
+ - layoutlib_utils.jar
+ - ninepatch.jar
+
+They should be placed in a "libs" folder in the source archive.
+
+3/ README
+
+In the source archive, at the top level, needs to be present a file explaining how to compile
+the plugins.
+
+This file is located at:
+    device/tools/eclipse/plugins/README.txt
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