Bug 230146

Summary:	[doc] PDE ignores the delta pack
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Wendell Beckwith <wbeckwith>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	caniszczyk, daniel_megert, jfrantzius
Version:	3.4	Keywords:	readme
Target Milestone:	3.4 RC1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description Wendell Beckwith

2008-05-04 23:31:33 EDT

Build ID: I20080502-0100

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Extract a eclipse 3.4M7 into a new directory.
2. Extract the 3.4M7 delta pack to the same directory.
3. Look at target platform in the preferences and the additional delta pack plug-ins are not visible.


More information:
A variation from step 2 is to extract the delta pack to a separate directory and then put a link file into the dropins folder.  Again the delta pack's plug-ins will not be visible.

The only way I have found to make them visible is to click "Add..." on the Target Platform preference page and to select the delta pack's plugins folder in the filesystem.  This will make then available.

Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-05-04 23:49:10 EDT

In the target platform preference page, uncheck the 'build target platform based on the target's installed plugins'

That should rebuild your target platform and include the delta pack... install it the way you use to install it... ie., just unzipping it.

The problem here is that even if you install the delta pack via p2, PDE still won't see it by default because if your target == host, PDE just builds its platform based on what p2 thinks is installed. P2 won't install the deltapack plug-ins because they aren't valid for the current platform.

Let me know if this solves your problem. This is a slight workflow change for people who use the deltapack when target == host.

Comment 2 Wendell Beckwith

2008-05-05 00:03:39 EDT

Thanks for the update and quick response.  This does appear to be the case.  Normally I don't install plug-ins into my eclipse home since I usually use link folders.  However, when the link folders didn't work for the delta pack, I figured it was some p2 wackiness and tried installing them in the eclipse home to no avail.

Comment 3 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-05-05 09:29:53 EDT

This will be something we need to do for RC1.

This is a documentation issue for people using the delta pack. The workflow has slightly changed.

Comment 4 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-05-07 14:28:13 EDT

I updated the PDE documentation to be more clear with how you deal with the delta pack.

Hopefully this will resolve people's confusion. If not, we can see if we can do more.

Comment 5 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-05-20 10:20:53 EDT

*** Bug 232480 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***