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Bug 218639

Summary:	[prov] Launcher IU id, requirements, and capabilities
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component:	Incubator	Assignee:	Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	pascal
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	3.4 M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	218623

Description Andrew Niefer

2008-02-12 11:22:32 EST

The id for the generated launcher IU should be based on the product (if we are generating for a product).  This is because the exe is branded with product icons.  The proposal is to use productId + ".launcher".

The generated IU should have a requirement on the corresponding org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.ws.os.arch IU.

It should also provide a capability (NAMESPACE_IU_KIND, productId + ".launcher").  This allows a Product IU to require the launcher without specifying the exact platform.  This is useful because it does not require us to know the platforms when generating the Product IU.

Comment 1 Andrew Niefer

2008-02-14 16:05:24 EST

The capability being used is namespace=productId, name= productId+.launcher

Only the launcher IUs provide this capability.  The corresponding launcher CU fragments do not provide this capability yet because of bug 218890.  As a workaround, the product IU  is currently requiring the CU fragments directly instead of through the capability.

I am marking this as fixed.  I have raised bug 219023 to change this workaround when 218890 is fixed.