[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Making p2 repos with PDE structured wi

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

I have a headless build, and I want to make a p2 repos to do 
installations from.

I want it to look like this:

Category1
  Product1 IU
  Product2 IU
  Category1a
    Feature1 IU (not an executable product)
    Feature2 IU (as above)
  Category1c
  ...

I tried the default p2 metadata generation and was not able to get 
something like Category1a, I tried making Category1a as a product with 
the Feature1 and Feature2, but show features did not show through in the 
 categories.

It also creates this very unsatisfying "Uncategorized" category where it 
puts all of the features.  I don't want this category at all.  And I 
don't consider most of my features as separate IUs.

I guess what I want is some more flexibility in the p2 metadata 
generation to specify my own categories and specify the IUs that go 
under them (which may or may not be based on products).  As far as I 
know there does not seem to be a way to do this.  I'm considering 
patching the p2 metadata generator to allow this flexibility.

I guess an alternative is to use the old update site stuff and then 
generate the p2 data from that, but I want to avoid that if possible 
(when I tried to generate an update site a while ago, I had trouble with 
that -- I think mainly due to my ignorance).

Are there other alternatives?


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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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