[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: p2 and Composite Features

[Alain Picard <apicard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry this reply was not attached to the right message. This issue is 
still open

> We are trying to create a composite feature to allow our developer a
> simple single install of our development environment.
>
> So we create a feature project in which we want to list the various
> features that our developers should install.
>
> We have conducted a number of tests, mostly all satisfactory, but we are
> trying to make this as simple as possible and this is where we are
> starting to see some concerns.
>
> Let's say that all we wanted as for our developers to install EMF on top
> of the base install. We can go and install EMF from the Galileo update
> site as one feature called   "EMF - Eclipse Modeling Framework SDK"
> which has an id of "org.eclipse.emf.sdk.feature.group". When looking at
> the installed software, this in turns has 4 child features with some of
> those having their own children.
>
> Now if I go back to my feature project, under the "Included Features"
> tab and look to add the "org.eclipse.emf.sdk.feature.group" it is
> nowhere to be seen. Even if I try to manually add it, when I run the
> Feature export wizard I get an error that the feature is not found.
>
> We have successfully went ahead and selected all of the features
> individually and that works, but it is more tedious, error prone and it
> doesn't give you the same view in your installed listing.
>
> How come we can't select this EMF composite feature to create our own?
> Are there any workaround here? Or are we conceptually missing something?
>
> TIA
> Alain