Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] p2 / browser integration

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At the Equinox summit there was some
discussion around how to discover and communicate with existing instances
of Eclipse when either someone double clicks on a shortcut or clicks on
a link in a browser.  There was some discussion around a Google SOC
project as well as the use of commands and console integration.  It
would be good for someone to prototype an actual working setup here so
that we can kick around various options and approaches.  For the first
cut there does not seem to be a need for doing native stuff (seems like
an optimization).  I noticed the other day that ECF has some discovery
code that might make sense here as well?

anyone willing to look at this and do
a prototype?

Jeff

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Forgot to mention some simple approaches we could
also consider for the UpdateManager:

1. The UI could detect a standard http:// site or feature URL on the clipboard,
or allow the user to 
paste it easily into the main UM dialog without forcing them to "Add
Remote Site..."

or even better,

2. The UI could allow links to be drag and dropped from the browser, into
the main Eclipse workbench 
or the UM, kicking off the install.  Providing sample "Eclipse
package, drag to install" graphics 
for use on the web could make this more intuitive.

(Susan, I haven't looked at the new UI yet, so please forgive me if some
of this is no longer 
applicable)

-Brett

Jeff McAffer wrote:
> 
> I agree that forcing people to browse via Elcipse is unfortunate.
 It 
> will address some of the usecases but not all.
> 
> As for XPI, I'm not sure we need to define some new packaging.  We
have 
> the p2 stuff so all we really need to do is give p2 enough data that
is 
> knows what it is to install.  In theory this could be as simple
as the 
> ID and version of an IU.  p2 does the rest based on the current
settings 
> etc of the agent.  XPI seemed like overkill in our situation.
> 
> Jeff
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> * Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007-10-23 10:36]:
>  > If you use the Eclipse browser to browse download sites
or something
>  > like EPIC
> 
> While I completely agree that we need some easy method of installing
and
> that it would be ideal to do so from a web browser, wouldn't this
> solution require one to basically do all of their browsing from within
> Eclipse?
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> As hard as it will be, I think native handlers are the way to go here.
> I'd love to be proven wrong, though, because I know how difficult
it
> will be -- especially with multiple running Eclipse instances.
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