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OK, I figured out the problem with Available Packages help: • both Grace and SimpliciTI Radio product deliver some of the same modules, e.g., ti.mcu.msp430.runtime.SysUart • the Grace product does _not_ show these modules in the Available Packages view but the Radio product _does_ • if Grace appears first in the package path, SysUart has no help but, if Radio appears first, SysUart has help So: the Radio product allowed me to see and add the SysUart module that was being found in the Grace repository! Available Packages should 1. warn the user about a package path problem _if_ a. the module being added does _not_ come from the "containing" product _and_ b. the module is provided by the containing product 2. provide a right click menu item to get to the RTSC "Products and Repositories" dialog that allows users to add/remove products as well as change their package path order 3. display product version numbers in hover help over product containers (like the C-editor does for module API's) 4. allow products to provide hover help for "groups" 5. be renamed "Available Products"
items 2 and 5 are fixed (in CCS 5.1 and xdctools 3.23) but the other (more useful) items remain to be fixed.
This issue will be even more important now that multiple products are likely to be supplying common modules. Also, only 1 and 4 remain to be resolved.
