Re: [p2-dev] OS specific features

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The site.xml is only used in p2 to generate
categories.  Categories are really just a grouping in the UI, the
filters in the site.xml are not used here.
The requirements from the category to
the features do get filters, but they come off the feature itself and not
from the site.xml.

-Andrew

James D Miles <jdmiles@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Thanks Andrew! There is also the same set of filters available
for each feature in the site.xml. Are they used in p2 and if so what are
they used for?

Andrew
Niefer ---03/26/2009 01:37:39 PM---I would not have said this was deprecated,
we do have an open bug about this not being honored, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/b

From:	Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:	03/26/2009 01:37 PM
Subject:	Re: [p2-dev] OS specific features

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I would not have said this was deprecated, we do have an open bug about
this not being honored, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=268016
(the same applies to the generator). 

In PDE/Build this is used to decide whether the feature is include in the
final archive. 
Note that build does not support lists here like the feature editor implies,
each entry ws/os/arch can only be single item. 

In M6 using the publisher (not the old generator) this could be worked
around by using a p2.inf to set the filter on the feature group IU (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=265217)
-Andrew

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How does one specify that a feature should only be installed on a specific
OS? In the feature DTD there is the os attribute in the feature element.
However I have been told that this is deprecated so I don't think the fact
that it is not honored is a bug. I can prevent the installation of the
os specific plugin using the os attribute in the plugin element but we
will still have a useless feature installed. _______________________________________________
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