Re: [p2-dev] p2 export/import features

[Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I gave a try to the plugin and it is pretty good and would definitely be of great help to users. It is something that we (the p2 team) always thought about doing but never got around to. As such I think that this would be great addition to p2.

Some of the details would likely have to be tweaked (or at least be sure that we plan for further extensions, see below), but at least we have an initial contribution to build upon and this is great.
I'm in support to provide you access to the incubator to rally help continue improving it.

Some notes:
- Does it make sense to be able to add this support to the director app.
- Could we make sure that the file format is extensible to later allow for the description of a profile (so we can replace the long command line we currently have)
- Should we try to cast this as a new sort of IU so these could also become manageable by p2.

PaScaL

On 2011-02-10, at 6:38 AM, Meng Xin Zhu wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Do you have the experience to install lots of frequently used features in different eclipse instances? They might be your home and office workstations. You need set up very similar development environments on Windows and Linux.
> 
> You have to manually search the location of repository, then add it into eclipse, install them one by one. I think it's a pain for me, installing the same CDT, Mylyn, Subversion, Clearcase and so on for my multiple eclipse on different machines.
> 
> I implemented a plug-in[1] to export the list of installed feature to a file, then other eclipse could quickly install the all/part of features listed in that file.
> 
> The exported configuration file is simple, which records the id of top IU of exported features and the repository location of those features.
> 
> The plug-in would load those repository location firstly then install those top IUs when importing the configuration file in another eclipse instance.
> 
> The plug-in also could import the installed features of another eclipse that could save a lot of time to download the artifacts especially the network is slow and unstable.
> 
> Meanwhile I see the similar topic in bugzilla[2]. I think it might be a common requirement, I would like to contribute this feature to p2 itself. And I would like to hear more comments from p2 community. :)
> 
> [1] http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/p2-installation-replication
> [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=282419
> 
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> 
> Best Regards
> Meng Xin Zhu
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