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

["Pascal Rapicault" <pascal_rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In the CVS repo there is a plug-in called org.eclipse.equinox.p2.selfhosting 
which was an attempt at doing what you are suggesting but it has not been 
used in months (not sure it compiles). the idea is with that installed in 
your dev environement a proper p2 profile would get generated on startup of 
the launch configuration.

We are hoping to revive this in 3.5, but it is unclear if this will happen 
with the workload we have.

"Francis Upton (News)" <francisu@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> 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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