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Bug 37684

Summary: [plan item] Improve update manager search
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component: Update (deprecated - use Eclipse>Equinox>p2)Assignee: Dorian Birsan <birsan>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: amanji, danjou, danrubel, manahan
Version: 2.1Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: 3.0 M3   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Jim des Rivieres CLA 2003-05-15 11:06:14 EDT 
Improve update manager search. Update manager searches for new and updated 
features are done in the Eclipse client. These searches, which can be time-
consuming, are done only on request, and the user cannot do anything in 
Eclipse until the search has completed. There are several ways update manager 
searches could be improved: provide update search APIs; allow searches to run 
asynchronously in the background; allow background searches to be scheduled 
periodically, or on startup; allow searches to be done on the server, thereby 
enabling sites to provide custom search implementations. [Platform Update] 
[Theme: Responsive UI]
Comment 1 Dejan Glozic CLA 2003-06-23 13:38:17 EDT 
As part of the refactoring effort, search has been pushed into Update Core. 
Search APIs have been created (FYI only - APIs can change any time).

Automatic update search specification draft is now available Update home page:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update-
home/doc/working/scheduler/scheduler.html
Comment 2 Dorian Birsan CLA 2003-06-23 16:52:19 EDT 
The automatic search proposal deals with two phases of a feature install: 
searching and downloading.
The user is then prompted for continuing to the installation phase, which 
actually has two parts: copying features/plugins to the appropriate location 
and then configuring/unconfiguring some features.

Is there a reason not to automate the entire process?
Comment 3 Dejan Glozic CLA 2003-06-23 18:31:08 EDT 
Unlike downloading, copying and configuring is a sensitive process that 
require users to:

1) Make some choices (accept license, optional features etc.)
2) Stop working because any crash caused by the user doing unrelated work in 
Eclipse may leave Update half-way into copying stuff, resulting in unusable 
product.

Unless there is a really strong demand for it, I would avoid performing the 
installation phase in the background for now.
Comment 4 Dorian Birsan CLA 2003-07-16 09:49:38 EDT 
For those interested, the M2 builds will have a first iteration on automatic 
updates. You need to enable it on the install preference page
(Window->Install->Automatic updates)
Comment 5 Dorian Birsan CLA 2003-09-02 16:01:56 EDT 
The automatic updates should be working fine in M3, so I will mark this as 
fixed.
Comment 6 Ali Murtaza Manji CLA 2003-10-20 14:49:55 EDT 
a
Comment 7 Ali Murtaza Manji CLA 2003-10-20 14:50:55 EDT 
a