diff -r 000000000000 -r 2e8eeb919028 configurationengine/source/plugins/build_egg_info.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/configurationengine/source/plugins/build_egg_info.py	Thu Mar 11 17:04:37 2010 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+# All rights reserved.
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+#
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description: 
+#
+
+# Script for generating the egg-info directories for all needed plug-ins.
+#
+# This is needed, because running some of the tests from Eclipse or
+# command line requires the egg-info dirs to be present for the plug-ins
+# to be found.
+
+import sys, os, subprocess, shutil
+
+ROOT_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+DEBUG = False
+
+def generate_egg_info(path):
+    """Generate egg-info for the given plug-in path if possible and necessary."""
+    if not os.path.isdir(path) or "setup.py" not in os.listdir(path):
+        return
+    
+    # Check if egg-info has already been generated
+    for name in os.listdir(path):
+        egg_info_path = os.path.join(path, name)
+        if os.path.isdir(egg_info_path) and name.endswith('.egg-info'):
+            # xxx.egg-info is present in the directory, check if it is old
+            setup_py_path = os.path.join(path, 'setup.py')
+            if os.stat(setup_py_path).st_mtime < os.stat(egg_info_path).st_mtime:
+                if DEBUG: print "No need to generate egg-info for '%s'" % path
+                return
+            else:
+                if DEBUG: print "egg-info for '%s' is out of date, removing old and generating new" % path
+                shutil.rmtree(egg_info_path)
+    
+    # Run the egg-info generation command
+    orig_workdir = os.getcwd()
+    try:
+        if DEBUG: print "Generating egg-info for '%s'..." % path
+        os.chdir(path)
+        p = subprocess.Popen("python setup.py egg_info", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        out, err = p.communicate()
+        if p.returncode != 0:
+            print >>sys.stderr, "Could not generate egg-info for '%s'!" % path
+            print >>sys.stderr, "Command stdout output:"
+            print >>sys.stderr, out
+            print >>sys.stderr, "Command stderr output:"
+            print >>sys.stderr, err
+        else:
+            if DEBUG:
+                print "Done"
+                print "Command output:"
+                print out
+    finally:
+        os.chdir(orig_workdir)