Re: p2 installer provides extension points?

by Pedro Carneiro :: Rate this Message:

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for your reply.

As far as I understood, the given installer is an example given by Eclipse of how we can create an installer based on equinox (p2) and does not have extension points available (right now). Is that right?

The essence of my question is because I would like to create an installer on top of p2 and add some functionalities to it. As all eclipse-based products are distributed over the EPL license, I would like to know if have a way to contribute with new functionalities to it without modifying the given example code, that is, using its available extension points.

Thanks,

Pedro Carneiro.

Pascal Rapicault wrote:

Hi,

If you are talking about the installer as available at
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/equinox/drops/I20080609-1311/index.php,
taking it apart / modifying / extending it is expected. This installer
application has more the goal of being an exemplary application than being
something to be reused directly out of the box even though it could.
In the long run, with everyone writing their own standalone installer based
p2, I hope we can gather all this code and create a common base, or just
have a pool of reusable components to share.

PaScaL

From: Pedro Carneiro <pjsc@cesar.org.br>

To: equinox-dev@eclipse.org

Date: 06/12/2008 07:35 AM

Subject: [equinox-dev] p2 installer provides extension points?

Hi all,

I would like to know if p2 installer provide extension points. If yes,
which
are them?
I'm asking this because in all the discussions that I read before the
developers are modifying the native installer behavior. Is this the
expected
way to do this?

I did not find a lot of documentation about the new p2 equinox installer
functionality (the great part comes from the eclipse wiki) and the found
one
does not talks about this.

Reading suggestions are always welcome.

Thanks.
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