[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Re: Welcome to eclipse.technology.pa

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, John - and yes, you are right, some of these questions are out of
scope of this project.

But to give you answers to your questions:

(1) A set of features/plugins could be bundled in a zip/tar archive and
distributed to your users. A tooling for this is one goal of this project.

(2) Special configurations are not included in our project proposal, but it
should be easy to put them in the 'plugin_customization.ini' file. In your
case it is probably in your org.eclipse.platform plugin.

(3) Example projects: In my opinion the easiest way is a project import from
a central location (CVS, a zip file, ...)

Hope this helps...

Regards,
Markus


John Cooney wrote:

> I was glad to see this project proposal, but have a few questions that
> don't appear to be in scope based on the proposal.  Are there guidelines
> or standards on how workspaces can be packaged/shared?  My usecase is that
> I have a set of features/plugins to roll out to some new users.  I'd like
> to get them started as soon as possible with a configuration that is tuned
> to a new user.  Examples of some things included; other s/w distributions
> like the JDK and Tomcat, a sample project so people can kick the tires on
> the plugins, and some customizations like having some snippets
> prepoulated.  Is there something better than workspaces to manage this?
> 
> We fixed the location and included the workspace, but this isn't very
> flexible.  We didn't want to force the users through steps like updating
> the preferences to point to the proper location for the Tomcat
> installation and change the project properties to set JSF library
> references.  How is this handled elsewhere?  Installing the workspace and
> then making changes for a new install location appeared to be messy.
> Importing the projects didn't do the trick because the users would still
> have a decent amount of configuration to take care of on their own.
> 
> Any comments would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> John