[p2-dev] Touchpoint advice files on features and products

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just wanted to let p2 developers know
that the touchpoint advice file (p2.inf) can now be added to features and
products as of 3.5 M4. This allows you to specify additional touchpoint
instructions at the feature or product level (such as creating sym-links,
setting program/JVM properties, etc). There are some automated tests for
this, but it hasn't been put into use in our own features and products
yet. Please enter bugs if you try this out and encounter problems. I have
added more details to the touchpoint instructions wiki page:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Engine/Touchpoint_Instructions#Authoring_touchpoint_data

For more details see the bug report:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=256037

John