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Bug 120789

Summary: have mozilla notify eclipse of update sites
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Tom Tromey <tromey>
Component: Update (deprecated - use Eclipse>Equinox>p2)Assignee: Platform-Update-Inbox <platform-update-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: b.muskalla, caniszczyk, eclipse, jimisola, lfrenzel, pascal, pombredanne, remy.suen, wmitsuda
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tom Tromey CLA 2005-12-13 21:37:39 EST 
Today I went to the subclipse web page to find the name of the
update site.  While doing so it occurred to me that this process
would be much friendlier if I could simply click on a URL
in mozilla and have this work.

I picture two scenarios.  First, if I'm already running Eclipse,
mozilla should contact the running Eclipse and tell the update
manager to add that site and prompt me for the updates I want from it.

Second, if I'm not already running Eclipse, it should be started,
automatically register the update site, and open on the
update manager perspective.
Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2006-03-03 16:57:59 EST 
Would you be able to prototype something for us?
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2008-11-01 05:37:29 EDT 
Will p2 be evaluating this space?
Comment 3 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2008-11-01 08:03:04 EDT 
It is (and has always been) on the plan. However I don't think we will get around to do it again this time because other aspects like usability, robustness, etc are so much more important for wider acceptance. That said if someone wants to hack on that he/she is welcome and can use as a base a *very* rough prototype that I hacked up for the BarCamps in June.
Closing as a dupe of 246628, the p2 bug about this topic. I will attach the code there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 246628 ***