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Feature-based self-hosting [message #515658]

Fri, 19 February 2010 16:09

Alain

Messages: 115
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

I tried to use the Feature-based self-hosting like described in the
"Tips and Tricks" of the PDE Guide.

I was wundering, why I had to import all prebuild plugins as binary
projects. My product includes the whole eclipse IDE, this implies that I
have to import all eclipse plugins as binary projects.

Isn't there a way, to specify a (target) location witch contains all
prebuild plugins and features?

Any ideas?

Regards, Alain.

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Re: Feature-based self-hosting [message #515842 is a reply to message #515658]

Sun, 21 February 2010 18:35

Ankur Sharma

Messages: 68
Registered: July 2009

Member

On 2/19/2010 9:39 PM, Alain Helfenstein wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to use the Feature-based self-hosting like described in the
> "Tips and Tricks" of the PDE Guide.
>
> I was wundering, why I had to import all prebuild plugins as binary
> projects. My product includes the whole eclipse IDE, this implies that I
> have to import all eclipse plugins as binary projects.
>
> Isn't there a way, to specify a (target) location witch contains all
> prebuild plugins and features?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards, Alain.

To address this only we are doing 'Feature based launching'
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=284885) for 3.6 M6 which comes out in a month from
now. It should have come out in yesterday's nightly build (N20100220-2000) in case you want to have
a quick taste of it. This shall reduce some of your pain.

This is part of the scheme to make the features first class citizens in target definition
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=284882).

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Ankur..
Eclipse PDE UI Committer | IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore
+91-99456-94011 | @ankur_sharma | http://blog.ankursharma.org

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