[equinox-dev] [prov] directory watcher

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I finally did something that has been
on my list for quite some time.  Inspired by Peter Kriens' FileInstall
bundle, I made a DirectoryWatcher that, as the name implies, watches a
directory and installs, uninstalls, configures, ... things that are dropped
into/removed from/changed in the dir.  The current working support
directly calls installBundle() etc but I have also been working on one
that calls p2 API to effect and install.  The design consists of a
DirectoryWatcher with which you can register listeners.  The listeners
then get added, removed and changed events for the files of interest in
the directory being watched.  It is quite easy to create a new listener
that does your own thing.  

Keeping in mind that this is quite early,
take a look at 
        org.eclipse.equinox.p2.directorywatcher
I have added not this to the PSF files
yet as there are some compile errors in the provisioning listener as I
have not completed enhancing the metadata generator to work on individual
files rather than directories.  More to come later...

Jeff