Bug 208676 - [engine] handle/support copying of profile area
Summary: [engine] handle/support copying of profile area
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Equinox
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: p2 (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: P2 Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2007-11-03 13:44 EDT by Jeff McAffer CLA
Modified: 2011-06-10 16:31 EDT (History)
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Description Jeff McAffer CLA 2007-11-03 13:44:17 EDT 
it will probably be attractive for people to think they can copy the profile area (the area that has the eclipse.exe, configuration dir, ...) once they have installed using the agent.  of course, if they do this they will be creating a copy of the profile "implementation" without actually making a new profile.  This iwll likely confuse the agent data somehow and lead to confusion for the user.

We can either facilitate this case somehow or detect it and flag an error.
Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2008-09-08 21:39:13 EDT 
Consider as part of the robustness effort in 3.5.
Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2008-12-12 22:12:53 EST 
Given that in 3.5 we are still not promoting bundle pooling this is less of an issue.