[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: [p2] Tricks and tips for debugging

["John E. Conlon" <jconlon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I too find p2-enabling my feature based Product non-trivial. A set of 
debuging tips would be very useful.

thanks,
John


Eric Rizzo wrote:
> I'm having a struggle getting our features to install into p2-enabled 
> (Eclipse 3.4 based) applications (Ganymede packages, Rational tools, 
> etc). I keep running into dependency issues, but the output that p2 
> gives when it can't install is less than useful.
> Are there any tricks or techniques that can help an experienced plugin 
> developer figure out why his feature won't install? Anything beyond the 
> cryptic "Cannot find match..." and "Unresolved dependency..." messages 
> that show up in the error log and the p2 UI...
>
> I have to say, this experience is a major step backwards from what we 
> had in the pre-3.4 world; I'm not sure if all the blame lies with p2 or 
> if some of it is due to PDE not being quite caught up, but in any case 
> it is quite disappointing. I'm not new to Eclipse or plugin development, 
> either.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eric