[news.eclipse.tools.buckminster] P2 materializer and profiles

[Carsten Reckord <reckord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I use the P2 materializer to install additional features into an RCP product. While that works more or less okay, one flaw in that is that 
the P2 materializer does not update the profile of my product, and therefore the additional features do not show up in the product's 
"Installed Software" (and strangely enough, although they work fine, neither in the "Features" list).

I worked my way through the P2Materializer class, looking for any hint at what's going on and if I understand correctly, it seems that only 
a temporary profile in the buckminster runtime is created for materialization and discarded afterwards.

So my question is:

- Would it be possible/feasible to enhance the P2Materializer with the option to update/create a profile in the target platform (and which)?
- or alternatively, is there some p2 magic to update the profile after buckminster is through with the materialization?


Best regards,
  Carsten

PS: Thomas, should you read this, you asked me to open a couple of bugzillas 
(http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=1271&group=eclipse.tools.buckminster#1271, 
http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=1255&group=eclipse.tools.buckminster#1255) a few weeks ago. I didn't get around to it at 
the time because I was called away from my buckminster work to finish another project. I've seen that some work has been done on properties 
in the meantime, so I was wondering if I should still enter those...