[cdt-dev] Native dependencies in CDT ecosystem

[Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I just added to p2 a mechanism that allows IUs to express dependencies 
on native packages. This information is used during the installation to 
present the user with a dialog indicating which native packages are 
required (see attached screenshot) -- p2 does not trigger the 
installation automatically.

Given that this work has been done mostly for the C/C++ ecosystem, I 
would like to know on a per plug-in basis all the native dependencies in 
use in the CDT ecosystem so I can prepare a patch leveraging this new 
feature.

Two questions you may have:
- Why is this new support not documented widely? Because it is recent 
(this week I build) but also because even though the p2 side is 
complete, tycho still needs to consume a new version of p2 for builds to 
not fail during product installation
- Which distros are supported? At this point only debian is supported. 
Adding support for other distros should be as easy as creating a couple 
shell scripts, patches welcome.

This work has been sponsored by Ericsson.

Pascal

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