Description Jochen Wiedmann 2021-11-20 08:09:03 EST

Whenever a new release milestone appears, I repeat the following:

  1.) Download the new "Platform Runtime Binary".
  2.) Run it.
  3.) Select my personally required plugins in the "Install New Software..."
      dialog, including the MPC plugin.
  4.) Wait, until the selected plugins are actually installed. (Good
      opportunity for drinking a cup of coffee.)
  5.) Restart Eclipse.
  6.) Select additional plugins in the Marketplace.
  7.) Wait, until the selected plugins are actually installed. (Another
      opportunity for drinking a cup of coffee.)
  8.) Restart Eclipse.
  9.) Start the actual work.

From the users perspective, the steps 4, and 7, but also 5, and 8, are
somewhat redundant. Thus, I wonder, whether it could be made possible to
integrate step 6 into step 3? If so, ther would be only a single installation phase, and a single restart. Okay, the installation phase would take even longer,
but still...

From my point of view, I see two implementation strategies. Both would be
appreciated:

  - Integrate the Marketplace dialog into the "New Software" dialog. This
    would create the problem, that the computation of "Is this plugin
    installable?" should be based on the selected software, rather than the
    already installed. Not nice, but should be doable.

  - Derive a standard update site from the Marketplace, that can then be
    used via "Add update site". Would work without any UI changes.