[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: Making p2 repos with PDE structure

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

Thanks for that, that's what I want.  And it occurs to me, I can 
probably just build my own content.xml file the way I want it (using my 
build environment).  One question though, how important are the "size" 
attributes?  Are they just an optimization or are they required?

Thanks again,
Francis

Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> I have built the attached example manually and it does what you are looking 
> for wrt to the nesting.
> However it does not get rid of the uncategorized category 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=227675
> If you feel like hacking something around this last bug please dont' 
> hesitate
>
> "Francis Upton (News)" <francisu@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:g5q28t$5ba$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > --
> > *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
> >
> >
> > You have brains in your head.
> > You have feet in your shoes.
> > - Dr Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go 


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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


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
- Dr Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go