[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: p2/pde testing p2 software update

["Francis Upton (News)" <francisu@xxxxxxxx>]

This bug addresses this issue:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=224658

Apparently having a real profile created is not part of the 3.4 
functionality.

Francis Upton (News) wrote:
> I wish to use the p2 software update in my RCP application, and I would 
> like to test the "client" side of it in the IDE (I don't want to run the 
>  headless build and run the application).
>
> Is it possible to have the PDE mechanism create the necessary p2 profile 
> for this to happen.
>
> Currently when I run the Help -> Software update, it gives me the dialog 
> that it cannot be run because 
> ProvisioningUtil.getProfile(IProfileRegistry.SELF) does not find the 
> profile (because it's not there).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Francis


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*new* Common Navigator Framework section in:
   3.4RC4 Platform Plugin Developer Guide (Programmer's Guide)
http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/cnf.htm
http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/francis
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Navigator_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Navigator_Framework_Use_Cases


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