290402 – Allow installing plugins into target, not just features

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Bug 290402 - Allow installing plugins into target, not just features

Summary: Allow installing plugins into target, not just features

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 291227

Alias:	None

Product:	PDE
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	4.0
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	PDE-UI-Inbox
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Reported:	2009-09-24 09:09 EDT by Andrew Niefer
Modified:	2009-10-27 06:35 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Andrew Niefer

2009-09-24 09:09:30 EDT

When editing a target definition, I can add content from a Software Site using p2.  However, the Add Content tab of the wizard only shows features, it does not allow you to select individual bundles.

Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk

2009-09-24 11:03:31 EDT

What's wrong with the directory option?

Comment 2 Andrew Niefer

2009-09-24 11:34:58 EDT

Directory option requires me to find and download the bundles and put them in a directory.  I'm lazy :)  It would be nice to just choose a bundle I want and get it (and its dependencies) from repos I already have populated in my preferences.

Comment 3 Chris Aniszczyk

2009-09-24 11:43:22 EDT

I see now, you want what I want :)

My goal in 3.6 is have three things done around target management:

1) target definitions should have a list of repos to search from... these should be decoupled from what they are looking for (they aren't currently). We should probably also have a global list of repos in PDE preferences versus just in target definitions.

2) The ability to open a dialog in similar vain to Open Type (Ctrl+Shift+T) and have that bundle provisioned and added to your target

3) The ability for quickfixes if you can't find a missing import or missing entry in MANIFEST.MF... to eventually call p2 to search and find things to add to your target.

I believe Curtis is kinda working on #1 with the rework of the target definition stuff. I plan on working on #2 and #3 once Curtis has made some progress.

Comment 4 Chris Aniszczyk

2009-10-27 06:35:07 EDT

I'm going to mark this a dupe of bug 291227 which will have this ability.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 291227 ***