Dear Marketplace Listing Owners,
We are very pleased to announce two new features for Eclipse Marketplace and
the Eclipse Marketplace Client that will be part of the Mars release.
1. The Eclipse Marketplace Client has been improved to only display listings
that are compatible with the version of Eclipse the user is running. As a
Marketplace listing owner, you now have the ability to create different
versions of your listings, called 'Solution Versions', that are specific to
the version of Eclipse. For each Solution Version, you can specify an update
site, feature IDs, supported operating system and supported version of
Eclipse. The default for all listings will be they are supported for all
versions of Eclipse.
2. For your Marketplace listing, you can now specify if a Feature ID is one
of three conditions: 1) Required, 2) Optional but selected by default, and 3)
Optional and not selected. We hope this will provide more flexibility for you
to specify the feature IDs that are installed with Marketplace Client.
Both of these features will be available in the Eclipse Mars release in June
2015. To prepare for Mars and these new features we recommend the following:
1. If your Eclipse listing is compatible with all versions of Eclipse then
you don't need to do anything but we recommend you to have a look at your
listing's feature IDs and specify which are required or optional.
2. If your Eclipse listing is specific to a version of Eclipse, please create
a new Solution Version in Eclipse Marketplace for each version. You can do
this today from your Eclipse Marketplace account.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Christopher Guindon
