Comments inline.
Hi,
Regarding the UML-RT specific diagrams on the "New Diagram..." menu is apparently pretty confusing. I wrote
bug 511187 to track some improvements in this area, specifically regarding the creation of state-machine diagrams. The existence of the possibility of creating UML-RT specific diagrams on the "New Diagram..." menu have never been intentional (if it ever have been possible). We for example removed the possibility of creating these diagram types in the new model wizard, since it does not make sense to create a "stand alone" capsule structure diagram, or state-machine diagram, without a capsule or state-machine. See for example the discussion in
bug 475805. The creation of these diagrams have always been intended to be made automatically when creating the capsule or the state-machine. But apparently this seem to be confusing.
So if users expect the possibility of being able to create the diagrams directly, then we probably should extend
bug 511187 to also cover the creation of capsule structure diagrams. But the behavior then should of course be to create the capsule (at the location where the user selects to create the diagram) and then as usual let the creation of the capsule create its owned/nested capsule structure diagrams. We should probably also think through whether we shall have a specific, "New UML-RT Diagram..." menu, similar to the specific "New UML-RT Child..." menu, to make it clear where you find the standard UML stuff, vs. the UML-RT specific stuff.
I don't have an opinion on this, other than as a user I prefer to have the least number of menus and options possible and keep the UI streamlined. It just surprised me that those entries that I had been used to were no longer there.
Some more comments inline below.
I agree that doing your own Oomph setup is a good thing to do, but not all users are "toolsmiths". They may just want to install a bunch of features in the same environment. Expecting such a user to write their own Oomph setup might be a bit too much to ask.
No, I didn't use the Installer. You can get the bare platform here:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.6.3-201703010400/ under "Platform Runtime Binary". You can reach that page from the Eclipse downloads page by selecting "Download packages", then "Other builds" (on the right) and then selecting the version. It's only 68MB. I think it's possible to get something even more barebones, but this is what I would call the "base". It doesn't come with the JDT, or even the PDE. Granted, it is not what most users will use, but it still works, once you add all the required update sites and install Papyrus.
Yes, that is more likely. In fact this user wanted to install Papyrus-RT on top of the Eclipse Modeling Tools package. But he still had the same problems.
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