Re: [p2-dev] Is it possible to install a feature into an RCP app at buil

[Trace Windham <twindham@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've added my feature to the category.xml for my RCP product, but this didn't cause the feature to be pre installed after the build of the RCP product was finished.

My feature that I want to be pre installed is built completely independent from my RCP product.  It has it's own parent pom.xml file and it's own category.xml file.  

How does the category.xml file for my RCP product know where to find my feature that I want pre installed?

Here's what is in my category.xml file now that I've added my Feature to it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<site>

   <feature url="" id="com.mydomain.myrcpapp.rcp.feature" version="1.1.7.qualifier">

      <category name="com.mydomain"/>

   </feature>

   <feature url="" id="com.mydomain.myotherfeature.feature" version="1.0.0.qualifier">

      <category name="com.mydomain"/>

   </feature>

   <category-def name="com.mydomain" label="Development Tools">

      <description>

         Eclipse based features provided by My Company's Software Development Group

      </description>

   </category-def>

</site>

I noticed that the attribute "url" was set to "features/com.mydomain.myotherfeature.feature_1.0.0.qualifier.jar", and I thought.  

How is the RCP build going to find that?  My other feature is built completely independently of the RCP build.  When I ran my RCP build, the other feature still was not pre installed.

So I modified the RCP's category.xml by adding the url of my other feature's p2 repository and made it look like this, 

<feature url="" href="http://mydomain.com/p2reposiotry/myotherfeature/features/com.mydomain.myotherfeature.feature_1.0.0.qualifier.jar">http://mydomain.com/p2reposiotry/myotherfeature/features/com.mydomain.myotherfeature.feature_1.0.0.qualifier.jar" id="com.mydomain.myotherfeature.feature" version="1.0.0.qualifier">

But, that didn't work either.

I think I'm still missing something here.  Does Tycho have the ability to even do this?

Another reply on this discussion mentioned this bug, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=361722  and that leads me to believe that Tycho doesn't have the ability to do this, yet.

Thanks again for your time, it is greatly appreciated.

Trace Windham

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Brian de Alwis <briandealwis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 16-May-2012, at 9:41 AM, Trace Windham wrote:
> Is there something else I need to do to get your proposed solution to work?

You need to ensure the features are included in the category.xml so that they are pulled in and available for installation.

Brian.
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Trace Windham