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Wed, 07 January 2009 12:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: fakemail.xyz.de

Hello people,

currently I am on making the decision if I should jump of the old update
Manager and try out p2.

Problem ist currently there seems to be not too much information on it
available... sure there are several websites. Though impression is that
p2 is currently not easy to handle. May be due to tools not yet
available in eclipse?
Also some things are unclear. Like do Features cease to exist with p2?

So currently my tendency is to believe that using p2 in an rcp app may
get easier with the next eclipse version. Is this guess right?

What I am currently missing that could get me to use p2 earlier is some
sort of migration guide... coming from feature based product ... and
features to extends the application to doing the same thing with p2.
Is there anything like that?

I have searched but not found anything. Also what I found seems to be
often just examples for simple applications without further extensions
and the products for p2 in the example then were only plugin based no
longer feature based.

Any pointer to a good guide?
(This: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Migration_Guide is definately
not what I am looking for)

Re: P2 worth waiting? [message #124060 is a reply to message #123890]

Thu, 08 January 2009 14:57

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipseng.arthorne.com

I think this is what you are looking for:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Adding_Self-Update_to_an_ RCP_Application
--

Christian wrote:
> Hello people,
>
>
> currently I am on making the decision if I should jump of the old update
> Manager and try out p2.
>
> Problem ist currently there seems to be not too much information on it
> available... sure there are several websites. Though impression is that
> p2 is currently not easy to handle. May be due to tools not yet
> available in eclipse?
> Also some things are unclear. Like do Features cease to exist with p2?
>
> So currently my tendency is to believe that using p2 in an rcp app may
> get easier with the next eclipse version. Is this guess right?
>
> What I am currently missing that could get me to use p2 earlier is some
> sort of migration guide... coming from feature based product ... and
> features to extends the application to doing the same thing with p2.
> Is there anything like that?
>
> I have searched but not found anything. Also what I found seems to be
> often just examples for simple applications without further extensions
> and the products for p2 in the example then were only plugin based no
> longer feature based.
>
> Any pointer to a good guide?
> (This: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Migration_Guide is definately
> not what I am looking for)

Re: P2 worth waiting? [message #124107 is a reply to message #124060]

Fri, 09 January 2009 13:35

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: fakemail.xyz.de

John Arthorne schrieb:
> I think this is what you are looking for:
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Adding_Self-Update_to_an_ RCP_Application
> --
>

Not exactly. Self updating seems to be possible. And it seems to work
for some people.. Though now I have an application that allows to
install extra features to the user.
There is nowhere any documentation available to handle this a bit more
complex case going beyond updating installed stuff...

Like going from a feature.xml to an installable unit (?) and how to
threat that so a user can find it with the updatemanager.

Also they only speak of plugin based products... there is not really
anything clear said about what happened to features..

regards
Christian

>
> Christian wrote:
>> Hello people,
>>
>>
>> currently I am on making the decision if I should jump of the old
>> update Manager and try out p2.
>>
>> Problem ist currently there seems to be not too much information on it
>> available... sure there are several websites. Though impression is
>> that p2 is currently not easy to handle. May be due to tools not yet
>> available in eclipse?
>> Also some things are unclear. Like do Features cease to exist with p2?
>>
>> So currently my tendency is to believe that using p2 in an rcp app may
>> get easier with the next eclipse version. Is this guess right?
>>
>> What I am currently missing that could get me to use p2 earlier is
>> some sort of migration guide... coming from feature based product ...
>> and features to extends the application to doing the same thing
>> with p2.
>> Is there anything like that?
>>
>> I have searched but not found anything. Also what I found seems to be
>> often just examples for simple applications without further extensions
>> and the products for p2 in the example then were only plugin based no
>> longer feature based.
>>
>> Any pointer to a good guide?
>> (This: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Migration_Guide is
>> definately not what I am looking for)

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