[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: Installing via dropins/ in Galileo

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/17/09 5:03 PM, Simon Kaegi wrote:
> Anything installed into dropins is done "optionally" so it's very likely
> there is something in the EPP package that is conflicting with a requirement
> in the Cypal Studio.
> If at all possible I would install throught the p2 UI as that should tell
> you what the conflict is.

I tried to install using the GUI, but could not figure out how to get it 
to recognize a plug-in JAR as an installable thing. How do you do that? 
(Cypal provides no update site, only a ZIP that contains 3 plug-in JARs).

Eric


> "Eric Rizzo"<eclipse-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote in message
> news:h8u566$g48$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I'm trying to help someone install the Cypal Studio plug-ins
> > (http://www.cypal.in/studio) into Galileo, but seeing odd behavior. I can
> > put the plug-in JARs into the dropins directory of my SDK installation and
> > it picks them up fine. But if we put them in dropins/ of one of the EPP
> > packages they are not detected. Nothing in Error Log, can't be found by
> > OSGi console via diag or ss command, nothing.
> > We've tried this on both Windows and OS X, with the Java Dev and Plug-in
> > Dev packages.
> >
> > My friend says he can put other plug-in JARs in the dropins/ directory and
> > they get picked up OK, so perhaps it's something with the Cypal plug-ins.
> > But if OSGi console doesn't even see them I don't know how to diagnose the
> > problem.
> > Any ideas? Can any of the platform developers perhaps try installing into
> > an EPP package and see what happens?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric