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Improve update manager search. Update manager searches for new and updated features are done in the Eclipse client. These searches, which can be time- consuming, are done only on request, and the user cannot do anything in Eclipse until the search has completed. There are several ways update manager searches could be improved: provide update search APIs; allow searches to run asynchronously in the background; allow background searches to be scheduled periodically, or on startup; allow searches to be done on the server, thereby enabling sites to provide custom search implementations. [Platform Update] [Theme: Responsive UI]
As part of the refactoring effort, search has been pushed into Update Core. Search APIs have been created (FYI only - APIs can change any time). Automatic update search specification draft is now available Update home page: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update- home/doc/working/scheduler/scheduler.html
The automatic search proposal deals with two phases of a feature install: searching and downloading. The user is then prompted for continuing to the installation phase, which actually has two parts: copying features/plugins to the appropriate location and then configuring/unconfiguring some features. Is there a reason not to automate the entire process?
Unlike downloading, copying and configuring is a sensitive process that require users to: 1) Make some choices (accept license, optional features etc.) 2) Stop working because any crash caused by the user doing unrelated work in Eclipse may leave Update half-way into copying stuff, resulting in unusable product. Unless there is a really strong demand for it, I would avoid performing the installation phase in the background for now.
For those interested, the M2 builds will have a first iteration on automatic updates. You need to enable it on the install preference page (Window->Install->Automatic updates)
The automatic updates should be working fine in M3, so I will mark this as fixed.
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