Re: [platform-update-dev] eclipse installation site types cleanup

[Peter Manahan <manahan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

platform-update-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/04/2004
03:48:56 PM:

> Hello Dorian,
> 
> Monday, April 12, 2004, 8:46:49 PM, you wrote:
> > - for consistency with the path specified in a .link file, the
add site
> > dialog should allow selecting the actual product extension (i.e.
the 
> > folder containing the eclipse directory), as opposed to having
to select 
> > the eclipse folder itself as done now. Also, when creating a
site in the 
> > install wizard, instead of creating features and plugins folders
inside 
> > the selected location, create an eclipse parent directory first.
> 
> I would like to suggest the other way around: make selecting the
> right dir possible. It's just a waste of path elements to add a
> $HOME/.eclipse/eclipse/{plugins,features} path, only to hide it in
> your home dir. I would rather use
> $HOME/.eclipseextention/{plugins,features}.

the .eclipseextention path is just an example of a
path? It could be

$HOME/extension1/{plugins,features} 

as well.

> 
> Another nice feature would be a 'root only updates', so that one
> could update the site via the commandline updater, but not via the
> normal user UI.
> 

Yes there needs to be a way to not allow the user
to remove or modify extensions created by native installers using the -addsite
command without using the -removesite command.

> Jan, debian eclipse maintainer
> 
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Thanks,

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Peter Manahan
IBM Rational Tools
Common Install
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