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How to add plugins manually (3.5M4)? [message #123797] Wed, 07 January 2009 13:31 Go to next message
R.M. Morrien is currently offline R.M. MorrienFriend
Messages: 9
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
Hi,

how do I add features and plugins mannually to eclipse?

For example I dowloaded EclipseMe and extracted the feature and plugins
into
the eclipse/feature and eclipse/plugin folder, but when I start eclipse
(with -clean) I do not see the plugins.

Plugins that have been installed via the wizard are loaded.

I noticed that the osgi.bundles list in
org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info does not list my
manually added plugins. Do I have to force an update of bundles.info? If
so, how do I do that?

In the past (Eclipse 3.3?) I could just extract the files into the
eclipse/feature and eclipse/plugin folder.

I do not want to update bundles.info manually, and I do not want to use
the wizard to install my plugins.

Thank you,

Martijn
Re: How to add plugins manually (3.5M4)? [message #123810 is a reply to message #123797] Wed, 07 January 2009 13:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: ekkehard.gentz-software.de

R.M.Morrien schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> how do I add features and plugins mannually to eclipse?
>
> For example I dowloaded EclipseMe and extracted the feature and plugins
> into the eclipse/feature and eclipse/plugin folder, but when I start
> eclipse (with -clean) I do not see the plugins.
>
> Plugins that have been installed via the wizard are loaded.
>
> I noticed that the osgi.bundles list in
> org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info does not list my
> manually added plugins. Do I have to force an update of bundles.info? If
> so, how do I do that?
>
> In the past (Eclipse 3.3?) I could just extract the files into the
> eclipse/feature and eclipse/plugin folder.
>
> I do not want to update bundles.info manually, and I do not want to use
> the wizard to install my plugins.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Martijn
>
put your bundles into Dropins folder - you can structure this folder like:

/dropins
--/A
----/eclipse/features
----/eclipse/plugins
--/B
----/eclipse/features
----/eclipse/plugins

P2 watches this folder and adds new plugins to your eclipse installation

ekke
Re: How to add plugins manually (3.5M4)? [message #123823 is a reply to message #123810] Wed, 07 January 2009 14:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
R.M. Morrien is currently offline R.M. MorrienFriend
Messages: 9
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
Great! It works. Even in my personal configuration area.

Now I know to use dropins it is much easier to find relevant documentation
like:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Disk_layo ut

I do like the options dropins gives me to structure my plugins.

Thank you very much!

Martijn
Re: How to add plugins manually (3.5M4)? [message #123836 is a reply to message #123823] Wed, 07 January 2009 14:22 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: ekkehard.gentz-software.de

R.M.Morrien schrieb:
> Great! It works. Even in my personal configuration area.
>
> Now I know to use dropins it is much easier to find relevant
> documentation like:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Disk_layo ut
>
> I do like the options dropins gives me to structure my plugins.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Martijn
>
great to hear that it works for you
if you have some eclipse installations and want to share dropins,
then you can start eclipse with

-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/YourP ath/YourSharedDropinFolder


and in this shared dropins folder you can place plug-ins same way as
with dropins of eclipse installation

then P2 watches both dropins folders: the one from eclipse installation
and the shared one

ekke
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