[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: How to add plugins manually (3.5M4

[ekke <ekkehard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

R.M.Morrien schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> how do I add features and plugins mannually to eclipse?
>
> For example I dowloaded EclipseMe and extracted the feature and plugins 
> into the eclipse/feature and eclipse/plugin folder, but when I start 
> eclipse (with -clean) I do not see the plugins.
>
> Plugins that have been installed via the wizard are loaded.
>
> I noticed that the osgi.bundles list in 
> org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info does not list my 
> manually added plugins. Do I have to force an update of bundles.info? If 
> so, how do I do that?
>
> In the past (Eclipse 3.3?) I could just extract the files into the 
> eclipse/feature and eclipse/plugin folder.
>
> I do not want to update bundles.info manually, and I do not want to use 
> the wizard to install my plugins.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Martijn
put your bundles into Dropins folder - you can structure this folder like:

/dropins
--/A
----/eclipse/features
----/eclipse/plugins
--/B
----/eclipse/features
----/eclipse/plugins

P2 watches this folder and adds new plugins to your eclipse installation

ekke