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Bug 111730 - Allow features to point to required plug-ins
Summary: Allow features to point to required plug-ins
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Update (deprecated - use Eclipse>Equinox>p2) (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Update-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2005-10-06 01:20 EDT by Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA
Modified: 2006-07-21 18:46 EDT (History)
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Description Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2005-10-06 01:20:49 EDT 
Extracted from the discussion at bug 106185:

(In reply to bug 106185 comment 10)
> Perhaps if we add an attribute to the 'requires' clause (auto-install="true"), 
> the authors of FOO can turn the flag to true and instruct Update to install 
> BAR if missing. In the absence of the attribute, the behaviour would be as 
> today i.e. the installation will fail if BAR is missing. Include would 
> continue to be used solely for flexibility and grouping.

If such an attribute is introduced, it should be a pointer to another update
site, i.e. not "auto-install" but something like "install-from='http://...'".
Comment 1 Branko Tripkovic CLA 2006-06-22 21:41:09 EDT 
"Select Required" and associate sites will do this.
Comment 2 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2006-06-22 22:23:03 EDT 
Yes, that button was added in 3.2. But does it also look for features on other sites or only on the currently scanned update site?
Comment 3 Branko Tripkovic CLA 2006-07-21 18:46:29 EDT 
Actually it was added in 3.1. As far as we know it works across sites.