Re: [platform-update-dev] Automatic Product Extension Install

[Mary Kroening <mary@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks! It was a typo. You can create and change them dynamically and it 
works on restart (at least for documentation).

Perhaps in future, you can make it possible to install and uninstall 
extensions using the SiteManager (or other appropriate resource). This 
would allow us to programmatically run the "Update Manager" on behalf of 
the user to install a needed product extension from a known location on the 
user's disk directly in a plug-in or other appropriate place.

Regards,
Mary Kroening
Amzi! inc.

At 12:38 PM 3/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Links were not designed to be used that way. They were designed to be laid
> down by the native installed, and not frequently changed. Changes in the
> link file prompt reconciliation and should not be taken lightly.
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> Your install handler does not run because it is called when an operation is
> performed on the feature (install, update, enabling, disabling etc.). No
> operation is performed on features already present in the application (at
> least not during the reconciliation).
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> Having said that, your link file should still be found on restart, so you
> may have something trivial like a typo or similar. Link files are just that
> - files, and we don't care who wrote them (manually using Notepad,
> programmatically, using native installer etc.).
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> Regards,
>
> Dejan Glozic, Ph.D.
> Manager, Eclipse Platform Components
> D2/MY7/8200/MKM
> IBM Canada Ltd.
> Tel. 905 413-2745  T/L 969-2745
> Fax. 905 413-4854
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> We would like to install a product documentation extension on-the-fly when
> Eclipse starts up, or when one of my plug-ins starts up. I did this by
> adding some code to my UI plugin to create the links subdirectory (if it
> does not exist), then create and write the file containing the pathname of
> the plugin. However, this does not work. Eclipse does not even recognize
> the linked plugin next time it restarts.
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> I understand the recommended procedure is a separate install program, but
> that creates quite a few difficulties for us as the documentation can move.
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> Is there a way to dynamically install a link? Ideally I would like to check
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> for our product extension (the documentation) on every invocation of
> Eclipse, and if its not there, recreate the link (as the documentation may
> have moved).
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> However, it may be enough to be able to run some code when "Please
> wait...completing the install" appears the first time Eclipse is run with
> our plug-ins installed.
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> I tried writing an install handler extending BaseInstallHandler, but it is
> never called. I presume this is because it is only called when the Update
> Manager is working.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Thanks,
> Mary Kroening
> Amzi! inc.
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