[news.eclipse.technology.babel] Re: Getting Galileo langpacks to work wi

[Sean Flanigan <sflaniga@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/19/2009 02:45 PM, Sean Flanigan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Owing to [https://bugs.eclipse.org/274025], p2 metadata isn't being
> generated for Babel, and hasn't been for a month or so.
>
> Has anyone been able to install langpacks in Galileo since the p2
> metadata stopped?  I can only get them to install if I generate p2
> metadata myself (by using my patch to fix the above bug).  Otherwise,
> the p2 update manager UI says "There are no items available."
>
> If it's just me having this problem, would someone mind sharing the trick?
>
> If it's not just me, I think [https://bugs.eclipse.org/276306], and
> perhaps 274025, deserve higher severity than "normal".  Quite a bit higher.
>
> Regards
>
> Sean.

Further to my own post, I have discovered that Galileo will pick up the 
zipped langpacks (without metadata) if you unzip the plugins into, say, 
eclipse/dropins/babel/plugins, and simply throw away the features. 
(Note that Eclipse starts pretty slowly the first time, because it has 
to scan the dropins directory.  So don't try doing it for too many 
languages.)

I think this works because it lets Eclipse ignore the incomplete 
dependencies of the features (they depend on plugin fragments which are 
there, but not all the host plugins are installed).  Since dropins only 
contains fragments, p2 just tries to use as many fragments as possible, 
and ignores the rest.

However, I still haven't been able to get Galileo langpacks working via 
the update site.  Any advice appreciated!

Sean.