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p2 provisioning non-Eclipse applications [message #108907]

Mon, 28 April 2008 11:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: tanz1978.runbox.com

Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone new any more details on whether the new
provisioning functionality in Equinox will be able to handle non-Eclipse
applications? I read in one of the newsgroup posts that the provisioning
aspect will be...

"Extensible to support provisioning of Eclipse and non-Eclipse software"

We need to distribute various Eclipse configurations (ie specific versions
plus plugins etc...) but also non-Eclipse tools as part of that. Ideally
on the Agent it'd be great to see a list of all available applications,
including non-Eclipse ones. Is this possible now or is it still something
for the future?

Thanks for any information you can give.

Cheers,
Mark

Re: p2 provisioning non-Eclipse applications [message #109018 is a reply to message #108907]

Wed, 30 April 2008 11:26

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nigel.miegel.org

p2 has been designed to install anything. That is what the touchpoint
extensions are for. A bundle is only one possible artifact in an IU.
When you say 'non-Eclipse' do you mean OSGi but not dependent on the
workbench, or are you talking about non-OSGi stuff? You talk about seeing
'applications' in the available IU list, but I don't understand what you
mean. You usually provision a profile (which represents a configuration
of a single application) with IUs (which usually but not necessarily
contain a bundle). If your applications are completely separate entities
(e.g. executable files) then they would not be provisioned inside another
application?

Nigel Westbury

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