Provide more detailed reporting during feature export
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#12 Provide more detailed reporting during feature export
The progress reporting for the final feature export step is very simplistic and only provides information about when the feature export job was scheduled and when it was finished. The individual steps of the feature export, such as Ant script creation or packaging are not reported. This severely limits the debuggability of feature export problems, because feature export diagnostics are simplified to binary "succeeded" vs "failed" information.
To help troubleshooting with feature export issues, it would be nice if the individual steps were reported as well.
A possible way to achieve this is to call IJobManager.setProgressProvider(...) with a custom ProgressProvider that returns an IProgressMonitor that redirects to ebuilder. This method is not supposed to be used by plug-ins other than Eclipse itself, but as feature export is the last build step anyway, it is probably safe to overwrite the existing ProgressProvider.
