Re: [p2-dev] FW: P2 Profile Questions

[Alessandro Mottadelli <amottadelli@xxxxxxxx>]

Pascal Rapicault ha scritto:
> The overall idea of creating what you need (metadata and profile) as 
> part of the build is good and I believe this is the path to follow.
> What I like about this is that by the same token that the eclipse you 
> download today result from a provisioning operation, you can then see 
> the WAR you ship resulting itself from a provisioning operation and it 
> makes things consistent.
> I think that what made this whole experience weird for you is 
> deficiencies in our tooling / metadata generation tooling that is 
> still very driven of complete products in a standard eclipse shape. 
> This is something that is being improved as we speak and we are 
> looking at ways to generate metadata from source information and not 
> require the product or whatever you build to be in its final shape.
> We are mostly focused on RCP product builds, so please make sure to 
> follow what is going there to make sure your scenario is addressed if 
> possible.
>
> One last thing, please try to not use the "dropins" folder to 
> provision... this is the worst way. Try invoking the director 
> directly, this will be much cleaner.
>
> PaScaL

Maybe you could publish a p2 metadata  spec ?
Maybe the people could generate the metadata they need by themselves if
they feel that the standard tooling is not what they need?