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config.ini editor planned? [message #461648]

Mon, 15 January 2007 14:39

Wouter de Vaal

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Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

This is a question to the eclipse/rcp team whether there is a config.ini
editor planned. I think this would be a nice feature as editing the list
of plugins and their startup values is quite error-prone.

Greetings,
Wouter

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Re: config.ini editor planned? [message #461672 is a reply to message #461648]

Tue, 16 January 2007 06:18

Alex Blewitt

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Registered: July 2009

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Not that I know of. But if you have the Eclipse update configurator, it scans and installs all plugins in the plugins/ directory anyway, which is what most people use for their apps. Note that just because a bundle is installed doesn't mean that it takes (that) much time to process -- starting them is the expensive bit.

The times when it's handy is when you have e.g. dynamic services (e.g. a Log service) that you want to make sure is up all the time.

What use cases do you have for editing this by hand?

(Just out of interest)

Alex.

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Re: config.ini editor planned? [message #461791 is a reply to message #461672]

Wed, 17 January 2007 10:32

Wouter de Vaal

Messages: 19
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Alex Blewitt wrote:
> Not that I know of. But if you have the Eclipse update configurator, it scans and installs all plugins in the plugins/ directory anyway, which is what most people use for their apps. Note that just because a bundle is installed doesn't mean that it takes (that) much time to process -- starting them is the expensive bit.
>
> The times when it's handy is when you have e.g. dynamic services (e.g. a Log service) that you want to make sure is up all the time.
>
> What use cases do you have for editing this by hand?
>
> (Just out of interest)
>
> Alex.

I'm currently using spring-osgi, which requires that your plugins that
expose services are started after spring-osgi is started. So spring-osgi
is started first and then the bundles that I want to expose a service.

What I find interesting is that for equinox, the eclipse platform
contains a run configuration panel in which you can specify startup
options per plugin, which you can't do this when running an eclipse
application, while these configurations options are really alike.

Wouter

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Re: config.ini editor planned? [message #461802 is a reply to message #461791]

Wed, 17 January 2007 12:28

Wouter de Vaal

Messages: 19
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Wouter de Vaal wrote:
> Alex Blewitt wrote:
>> Not that I know of. But if you have the Eclipse update configurator,
>> it scans and installs all plugins in the plugins/ directory anyway,
>> which is what most people use for their apps. Note that just because a
>> bundle is installed doesn't mean that it takes (that) much time to
>> process -- starting them is the expensive bit.
>>
>> The times when it's handy is when you have e.g. dynamic services (e.g.
>> a Log service) that you want to make sure is up all the time.
>>
>> What use cases do you have for editing this by hand?
>>
>> (Just out of interest)
>>
>> Alex.
>
> I'm currently using spring-osgi, which requires that your plugins that
> expose services are started after spring-osgi is started. So spring-osgi
> is started first and then the bundles that I want to expose a service.
>
> What I find interesting is that for equinox, the eclipse platform
> contains a run configuration panel in which you can specify startup
> options per plugin, which you can't do this when running an eclipse
> application, while these configurations options are really alike.
>
> Wouter

Never mind my rambling, I just found out that you don't have to use
absolute paths and you can have multiple lines for bundle declarations,
which makes it much easier.

Wouter

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