[platform-update-dev] Re: Orphan plugins

["Foster, Susan B" <susan.b.foster@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to Peter Manahan's comment that the CDT provide Features for
their Plug-ins, the answer is, they do.  I mistakenly copied the
plug-ins only, because at that point I didn't know what a feature was,
and so ignored it (nor was I the only one in the group to do so).  My
concern is this:

I am developing a tool that relies on the CDT, and as I just proved to
myself, there is room for user error when installing the CDT that would
make my Feature fail to install.  As far as I can tell, you can't
install the CDT with the Install Manager, so you can't guarentee that
the user will install it correctly.

Is there something in the works to address this issue?

Also, I would like to copy some files from a website to the local fiel
system at the same time that I install my plug-in.  These files have
nothing to do with eclipse and should not be in the eclipse workspace.
I want to copy them to a local repository and, ideally, pass the
location to my plug-in.  Is there some mechanism to take care of this?
And if so, what is it?  I'll post this in the newsgroup, in case this is
not the correct forum for it.

Susan
email: susan.b.foster@xxxxxxxxx
phone: 480-552-0927