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What is the purpose of eclipse-RCP vs eclipse-RCP-SDK [message #439370]

Fri, 04 November 2005 14:57

Eclipse User

I've been developing an RCP application based on Eclipse 3.0 for about a
year now. With the release of the RCP book I decided to update our
practices based on what I've been reading.

In the past, we downloaded the RCP runtime, eclipse-RCP and used it to
build a template. We then exported our plugins into the templates
plugins directory to do a release.

The RCP book details using the RCP-SDK as a target for development
within the PDE and then using export product to do all of the work to
create a runnable product.

My question: is there any point to having the RCP binary runtime? Does
it result in a different end product (leaner runtime, smaller on disk,
etc) or is it just an artifact of the old way of doing things.

Thanks
Chris

Re: What is the purpose of eclipse-RCP vs eclipse-RCP-SDK [message #439391 is a reply to message #439370]

Sat, 05 November 2005 17:23

Eclipse User

The RCP runtime serves two goals:
- show how small RCP is
- facilitate the packaging of rcp based app

PaScaL

Chris Audley wrote:
> I've been developing an RCP application based on Eclipse 3.0 for about a
> year now. With the release of the RCP book I decided to update our
> practices based on what I've been reading.
>
> In the past, we downloaded the RCP runtime, eclipse-RCP and used it to
> build a template. We then exported our plugins into the templates
> plugins directory to do a release.
>
> The RCP book details using the RCP-SDK as a target for development
> within the PDE and then using export product to do all of the work to
> create a runnable product.
>
> My question: is there any point to having the RCP binary runtime? Does
> it result in a different end product (leaner runtime, smaller on disk,
> etc) or is it just an artifact of the old way of doing things.
>
> Thanks
> Chris

Re: What is the purpose of eclipse-RCP vs eclipse-RCP-SDK [message #439419 is a reply to message #439391]

Mon, 07 November 2005 17:08

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: Lamont_Gilbert.rigidsoftware.com

How do I use the rcp plugin? When I export my product/feature, I am not
sure what plugins I can remove since the rcp plugin is now present. Or
is that even how you use the rcp plugin?

rcp plugin does not seem to add anyting to my app as I still need all
the other needed plugins, and can run without the rcp plugin.

CL

Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> The RCP runtime serves two goals:
> - show how small RCP is
> - facilitate the packaging of rcp based app
>
> PaScaL
>

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