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Re: In 3.4 SDK config.ini: what do these org.eclipse.* lines do? [message #331864]

Thu, 25 September 2008 12:20

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Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com

Thanks Chris.

I'm having difficulties getting a restarted (and -clean) Eclipse to
recognize new plug-ins in the dropins directory. I haven't been able to
make a really reproducible failure case yet--sometimes it works and
sometimes it doesn't. I saw a posting from other people, including Ed
Merks, about seeing similar behavior, so I know it isn't just me. :-)

So, given this info about those lines in config.ini, what I'm wondering
now is:
- In the past, when I dropped plug-ins into the plugins directory and
restarted with -clean, was it Update that did that discovery?

- For 3.4, what is now doing the discovery of plug-ins in the dropins
directory? Is it p2, or something else?

- How does the discovery of plug-ins in the dropins directory relate to
the bundles.info file? (Assuming that p2 is handling the dropins
discovery while it is also using the bundles.info file).

Thanks in advance!
Lee Anne

Chris Aniszczyk wrote:
> Lee Anne wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to migrate something I used to do in 3.3 to 3.4. I'm
>> comparing the 3.3 config.ini file with the 3.4 one and am trying to
>> understand the differences.
>>
>> What do the lines actually do or affect?:
>> org.eclipse.update.reconcile=false
>
> This tells Update to not attempt to discover plug-ins like it
> promiscuously did in the past. This is needed because in 3.4, p2
> is used as the main way to manage bundles... not update.configurator.
>
>> org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.configUrl
>
> This is the configuration used by p2 that is a list of bundles to be
> installed amongst other things. The file should point to a bundles.info
> containing all the bundles that should be "installed" when Eclipse starts.
>
>> Thanks in advance! If there's a 3.4 help topic or other page that I've
>> overlooked, please point me to it.
>
> Couldn't find anything in the help, but it may be there still.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~ Chris

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