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Bug 314863

Summary:	Marketplace client missing in eclipse classic
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Benno Baumgartner <benno.baumgartner>
Component:	Marketplace	Assignee:	Marketplace Inbox <marketplace-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ian.skerrett
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Benno Baumgartner

2010-05-28 09:12:46 EDT

I20100520-1744

1. Download the latest eclipse classic
2. Start it
3. Try to install new software using the marketplace client
IS: No marketplace client action in the help menu is available
SHOULD: Marketplace client should be part of classic by default

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that still a lot of people use and download the classic build. I think making the marketplace client available to them per default would make sense?

Comment 1 Benno Baumgartner

2010-05-28 09:13:24 EDT

Workaround is to use the helios update site to install the marketplace client, which works fine.

Comment 2 Ian Skerrett

2010-05-28 09:27:27 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> I20100520-1744
> 
> 1. Download the latest eclipse classic
> 2. Start it
> 3. Try to install new software using the marketplace client
> IS: No marketplace client action in the help menu is available
> SHOULD: Marketplace client should be part of classic by default
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that still a lot of people use and download the
> classic build. I think making the marketplace client available to them per
> default would make sense?

We have taken the position that the Classic package is the 'pure' SDK created by the Platform project.  Therefore, we don't add anything into that package not included by the Platform team.  

I agree it would be useful to people that download the Classic package but they would need to download another package or use the Helios repo.

Comment 3 Benno Baumgartner

2010-05-28 09:35:39 EDT

I understand, but as a normal user I could easily mistake the marketplace client as a platform feature, and hence it could be confusing, that it is not included in the platform.

But I can life with the "workaround".