All,
The Eclipse Foundation has been working on a new Eclipse plugin called
the Marketplace Client (MPC). MPC allows developers to directly install
into their Eclipse installation a product that has been listed on the
Eclipse Marketplace. The hope is that it make it much easier for
developers to find and install Eclipse products.
MPC is being developed as an open source project and is part of the
release train. An initial release was included in the Java IDE and
RCP M6 packages. The goal is to include it in all of the packages for
Helios (with the exception of the Classic). I would like to suggest
that MPC is automatically added, via Markus, to all of the packages;
similar to how we do UDC. This would make it easier and consistent
for all the package maintainers.
I appreciate this is too late for the M7 packages but I would like to
start doing this for RC1. Is this okay with everyone? MPC is an
important initiative of the Eclipse Foundation, so I am hoping to have
your support.
Thanks
Ian
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