[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: P2 worth waiting?

[John Arthorne <eclipseng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this is what you are looking for:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Adding_Self-Update_to_an_RCP_Application
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Christian wrote:
> Hello people,
>
>
> currently I am on making the decision if I should jump of the old update 
> Manager and try out p2.
>
> Problem ist currently there seems to be not too much information on it 
> available... sure there are several websites. Though impression is that 
> p2 is currently not easy to handle. May be due to tools not yet 
> available in eclipse?
> Also some things are unclear. Like do Features cease to exist with p2?
>
> So currently my tendency is to believe that using p2 in an rcp app may 
> get easier with the next eclipse version. Is this guess right?
>
> What I am currently missing that could get me to use p2 earlier is some 
> sort of migration guide...  coming from feature based product ... and 
> features to extends the application  to   doing the same thing with p2.
> Is there anything like that?
>
> I have searched but not found anything. Also what I found seems to be 
> often just examples for simple applications without further extensions 
> and the products for p2 in the example then were only plugin based no 
> longer feature based.
>
> Any pointer to a good guide?
> (This: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Migration_Guide is definately 
> not what I am looking for)