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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] p2 update

The advantages are that you now have more flexibility to organize your
plugins (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Dropins) but
more importantly it allows you to not mix-up the plug-ins you want to try
with the plug-ins you know already runs well. One of the typical problem
users had in the past was that after having unzipped random stuffs in the
plugins folder, their eclipse install would no longet start and they would
not know what to delete and therefore ended up trashing everything. With
the dropins you can simply delete its content, or if you have organized the
content of the dropins you can just delete what you believe broke your
install.

All that said, one of the goal of p2 is to get people out of the file
system by offering more appealing installation metaphors such as d&d of zip
files, URLs, etc onto the installation UI.

PaScaL


                                                                                                                                                     
  From:       David Olsen <David.Olsen@xxxxxxxxxx>                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                     
  To:         Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                     
  Date:       03/27/2008 12:33 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                     
  Subject:    Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] p2 update                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                     






Pascal wrote on 03/27/2008 07:25:00:
>       - p2 is now capable of discovering plugins dropped in the plugins
> folder, like you have always been able to do. That said, going forward we
> still recommend people to use the dropins folder

What advantages does using the dropins folder have?  What will go wrong if
we continue to drop things in the plugins folder?

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