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Hi Henrik,

We want to use p2 with a more user-friendly interface, for our development teams. The aim is to build some eclipse specific configurations, one per project. Thus, each developer working on a project has exactly the same configuration as his team members, and can only update the IUs allowed by the configuration manager.
Of course, the cherry on the cake would be to also be able to easily deal with the target platform under p2 control. Indeed, for "web projects", only the development environment is really useful, and target platform doesn't make sense. But, for complex Eclipse developments, we want to constrain both the development environment ("use Ecore Tools v.X", "use checkstyle Y", ...) _and_ the target platform.

As we want to create a user friendly IU editor, we're currently having a look at the work done by Henrik to see how to use it, how to add the features we need, and how to improve and simplify the user interface.

Here are some points we have thought about :
  • the Overview tab miss some properties, like a checkbox "Group", that could be checked by default. Furthermore, the "name" field doesn't seem to allow spaces? (see later for our Databinding comments).
    It's also probably necessary to add a tab allowing to edit every "non-standard" property of the IUs (every property whose name is not something like "org.eclipse.equinox.p2.*" ...?)
  • in Required Capabilities, we think it might be useful to have a wizard behind the "Add" action, to allow browsing for existing capabilities. 
    • Step 1) User can chose the source : IUs installed in the running profile, or IUs available into the referenced repositories
    • Step 2) User can then select some capabilities provided by these IUs (if he doesn't want the whole pack)
    • Step 3) User can enter differents options : a range (a "standard range" can be generated by default, in order not to have a strong dependency like "3.0.0.v200806092130-7C78ELSE8VrRVor6q2hez07sOLY" or something :-)), os/ws/arch/nl filter, greedy flag (default to checked), multiple, optional.
    • On "finish", the list of choosen items are added to required capabilities.
  • A similar wizard could also help to add Artifacts.
  • In the same way, a wizard may help to fill Provided Capabilities, making a list of capabilities that the IU is able to provide.
  • We think it would also be great to allow to easily export the edited IU into a new or existing repo., and, maybe, to directly propose a repository editor.
I had a look at the code base of the IU editor and I noticed that you're currently using your own implementation of Databinding (with Mutators, etc.). Was something missing in the Eclipse Databinding framework (http://wiki.eclipse.org/JFace_Data_Binding/Original_Design) ? I especially think this is great to deal with Forms because the MessageManager can directly be bound to the "validation context" of the binding, and things like conversions, validations, etc. are much more natural using the "declarative" approach of this framework.
Besides, some refactoring is certainly needed to be able to implement the features described above, and we would be very pleased to work hand in hand with you to make the editor better.

Henrik, what is your current status on this project?
Have you done some improvements that are not committed in the buckminster SVN?

Regards,

Anaik Trihoreau

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Anaïk Trihoreau
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Sujet:
[equinox-dev] P2 authoring reaches first milestone
Expéditeur:
Henrik Lindberg <henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:33:45 +0200
Destinataire:
Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Destinataire:
Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,
I have now reached a first milestone in P2 IU authoring. This wikipage http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Metadata_Authoring has screenshots of the editor. There are also instructions (at the top), where to find the editor and how run it.

To summarize:
- IU files can be created and edited
- Support for undo/redo and interactive error messages

I have some questions regarding certain fields, and what makes sense from an editing perspective. Some of those questions are on the wiki page. Feel free to add comments or ideas to the wiki page.
What remains to be supported:
- creation of fragment
- creation of patch
- lookup in repositories.
- "build/test" stuff

Looking forward to receiving comments.

best regards

Henrik Lindberg
henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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