Re: [epp-dev] new package in EPP

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Thanks Gunnar for forwarding that on).

Eike, that sounds like a great idea I will do that. I have added that to ,my tracking bug.

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 11:25, Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jonah,

I believe Eike wanted to share the email below with all of us. Might be something to help with visibility:


> On Jun 26, 2019, at 09:45, Eike Stepper <stepper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Am 26.06.2019 um 09:29 schrieb Gunnar Wagenknecht:
>> Hi Jonah,
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>> I certainly understand the motivation about "visibility" for creating such an EPP package.
>>
>> However, in this particular case I'd vote "no". Sorry. A standalone CDT Debugger is a project specific artifact and not an Eclipse IDE package. For the very same reason, the Eclipse Memory Analyzer distributed their own standalone app from within the project but not as an EPP package.
> Once you build such a stand-alone application you can also register it with the "Eclipse.org Applications" product catalog of the Eclipse Installer, so that your users can more easily discover and install it. Of course you can do that independend of whether you're an EPP or not.
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> Cheers
> /Eike
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