[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: RCP and Feature updates

[Steve Blass <swb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Phifer wrote:
> I am trying to write an RCP application that can use the Sotware Updates 
> functionality provided by the platform.  I have found very little 
> information about the best way to achieve this, since articles tend to 
> be about RCP, or about features, but not using features with RCP. 
> The only thing I have found that covers this topic directly is here:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.rcp/msg00403.html
>
> Is this the best source of information out there for getting RCP apps to 
> use the Software Update functionality?  If so, it seems rather odd that 
> it is buried in a thread from Sept 2004.
>
> I was able to create a feature from a plugin, and view it through the 
> software update menu option in my RCP app, but when I select the feature 
> I get an error that says org.eclipse.ui is required.  Of course, the RCP 
> app is running, so org.eclipse.ui IS there.  This seems like a bug, but 
> I don't understand exactly what is going on. 
> Any savvy RCP devlopers out there want to put together an article that 
> builds a simple RCP application and uses the update manager to install a 
> plugin?  Please??
> Dan

For 3.01 I had to create a feature that contained everything MY feature 
requires for a base RCP platform.  Then I was able to deal with my 
application as two features, the one I wrote and my RCP base feature. 
Without that base feature I had the same kind of complaints about 
required things that were in fact already in place.


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Steve