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Bug 106281 - Offer to download missing features/plugins
Summary: Offer to download missing features/plugins
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Update (deprecated - use Eclipse>Equinox>p2) (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Update-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2005-08-06 11:57 EDT by Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA
Modified: 2006-06-22 20:20 EDT (History)
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Description Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2005-08-06 11:57:54 EDT 
When contributing to Open Source projects or other projects it's often hard to
setup a comfortable development environment, because nobody knows, which
plug-ins are required. For example, sometimes it's necessary to generate some
source code before the project will compile wihtout errors.

Eclipse should introduce some magic to allow projects to define, which plugins
are useful for developing. If these plugins arn't installed Eclipse should offer
to user to download an install the missing features/plugins from an update site.
Comment 1 Branko Tripkovic CLA 2006-06-22 18:55:24 EDT 
There is no way for us to figure from where to download required plug-ins. And even if there was a way this is wrong component, please open it against component that you think should do this.
Comment 2 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2006-06-22 20:20:26 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> There is no way for us to figure from where to download required plug-ins.

Are you serious? Never heard of EPIC - a simple directory where providers register there plug-ins and can categorize them?

> And
> even if there was a way this is wrong component, please open it against
> component that you think should do this.

If not Platform/Update is responsible for downloading and installing plug-ins who is?