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Re: [platform-update-dev] Re: Orphan plugins
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The 'room for error' as you describe it, is caused solely by CDT by not
providing a standard installation procedure either using native installer
or Update Manager (I apologize in advance if I am mistaken). Downloading
when moving between the drivers is fine, but for installation of a
release, they (CDT) definitely need some kind of installation tool that is
not WinZip :-).
Non-plug-in files are typically installed using custom install handlers
registered with features. Read online Help entries about features. Try the
following links:
General info:
http://dev.eclipse.org/help21/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/concepts/concepts-25.htm
Feature archive reference:
http://dev.eclipse.org/help21/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/feature_archive.html
Regards,
Dejan Glozic, Ph.D.
Manager, Eclipse Platform Components
D2/MY7/8200/MKM
IBM Canada Ltd.
Tel. 905 413-2745 T/L 969-2745
Fax. 905 413-4854
"Foster, Susan B"
<susan.b.foster@xxxxxxxxx> To: <platform-update-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: cc:
platform-update-dev-admin@ Subject: [platform-update-dev] Re: Orphan plugins
eclipse.org
06/09/2003 04:06 PM
Please respond to
platform-update-dev
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
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