Re: [cdt-dev] Anybody using p2?

["Terry Parker" <tparker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Internally we use a shared Eclipse installation.  In the shared
installation environment no one has gotten the p2 dropins folder to
work.  Is this anyone else's experience?

I'm seeing problems where uninstalling an updater site through p2
shows the feature as uninstalled but the plugins still get loaded and
are active, and I have to go into the ~/.eclipse folder and delete
them to get them to go away.

Thanks,
Terry

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:49 AM,  <Warren.Paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Before moving our product to Eclipse 3.4, we were building our features
> using the headless build and then packaging our product by extracting
> Eclipse platform archives with our feature archives into a product
> layout.  We had our own copy of the launcher, config.ini file, etc..
> This broke when we moved to Eclipse 3.4M6 when p2 was introduced.  We
> decided we should use the headless product build and then p2-ize the
> product.  It took me a looooong time to get the product build working,
> and the p2 stuff was a nightmare.  We finally got it all building and
> p2-ized, but now we're unable to update!  It finds the update and says
> it installs correctly, but the new bundles are put deep in the bowels of
> the configuration directory and never loaded when restarted.  I'm very
> frustrated that we spent so much time trying to get the builds to work,
> only to find out that the updates don't work.  Anyway, we're not taking
> advantage of any of the new functionality right now anyway, so we've
> decided to revert to using the old update manager.  As far as I can
> tell, some of the cool p2 features don't work in 3.4 anyway, and are
> targeted for 3.5.
>
> Anyway, I was just curious if anyone else was trying to use p2 and what
> their experience has been.
>
> Thanks,
> Warren
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of ext Wieant Nielander
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:22 AM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Anybody using p2?
>
>> This is just a general question for people building IDE's based on
>> Eclipse 3.4 and CDT 5.x.  I'm wondering how many people are using p2
>> and how many are sticking with the old updater.  We've run into a lot
>> of issues p2-izing our products and are considering sticking with the
>> old updater for now, possibly moving to p2 when Eclipse 3.5 comes out.
>
> Warren,
>
> We recently released a product including an Eclipse 3.4 and CDT 5 based
> IDE, and did switch back to the old installer since we couldn't get p2
> up and running in time. But I must admit that it was a late decision to
> use the Ganymede release so we didn't spend that much time on looking
> into p2. As we still have to schedule this feature any
> feedback/doc/reference implementations are more than welcome.
>
> Regards,
>  Wieant
>
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