Re: p2 installer provides extension points?

by Pedro Carneiro :: Rate this Message:

What I'm trying to say is that products developed by the Eclipse foundation are always distributed over the EPL license. This effects me directly because the product that I'm developing is closed source and so modifying this code directly 'hurts' what I'm doing here.

Some interesting extensions/functionalities that I'm trying to make are, for example, verify the available JRE version, verify the necessary and the available space required by the installation, shortcut creation and some little but useful things like that. In other words, things that installers like, for example, installshield usually does.

Do you guys have plans to build this kind of p2 installer core and make available some extension points for it? perhaps on 3.5.. :D

Congratulations for the good job.

Thanks,

Pedro Carneiro.

Pascal Rapicault wrote:

Hi Pedro,

You correctly understood the intent of the eclipse installer being
provided. It is just an application and it has not been made to be
extensible.
What kind of extension are you trying to make?

I'm not sure what you refer to when you mention "As all eclipse-based
products are distributed over the EPL license" and how that affect what you
are trying to do.

PaScaL

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

To: equinox-dev@eclipse.org

Date: 06/12/2008 11:23 AM

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

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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