Support for plugin installation tasks?

[Jonathan Betz]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out it the workspace mechanic supports preference
tasks that install new plugins. If I turn on the preference recorder,
install new software, and save the file in my ~/.eclipse/mechanic, it
contains a number of config options, but applying that preference file
on a different workspace has no effect...

The file I generated is copied below.

Cheers,
Jonathan

# @title Install Plugins
# @description Install Plugins
# @audit_type RECONCILE
#
# Created by the Workspace Mechanic Preference Recorder
#Thu May 27 10:34:35 EDT 2010
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http
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site/version=1.0.0
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[Brian Chin]

The workspace mechanic does not install plugins into your workspace. It only sets up the configurations of plugins that have already been installed. I'm not entirely sure if that's by design, or if we just haven't tried yet. Any thoughts, anyone?

- Brian

[Robert Konigsberg]

We never had that need internally, so we did not implement it. It's certainly possible for someone to write such a task supplier, and we could discuss including it in another release.

Seems like the two biggest requests we're getting are tasks that manage installing plug-ins and registering task directories by URL.

--
Robert Konigsberg
konig...@gmail.com

[Jonathan Betz]

If I may make a more general comment, it's really unclear what sort of
tasks are supported by the preference recording. For example, can I
define user libraries with the preference recorder?

Any documentation here would be immensely helpful.

BTW, this is an AWESOME tool. It is making my life a lot easier right
now.

On May 27, 2:16 pm, Robert Konigsberg <konigsb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We never had that need internally, so we did not implement it. It's
> certainly possible for someone to write such a task supplier, and we could
> discuss including it in another release.
>
> Seems like the two biggest requests we're getting are tasks that manage
> installing plug-ins and registering task directories by URL.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Brian Chin <brianc...@google.com> wrote:
> > The workspace mechanic does not install plugins into your workspace. It
> > only sets up the configurations of plugins that have already been installed.
> > I'm not entirely sure if that's by design, or if we just haven't tried yet.
> > Any thoughts, anyone?
>
> > - Brian
>

> >> eclipse/2.0/update-site/<http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2....>

> >> eclipse/2.0/update-site/<http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2....>

> >> profile/_SELF_/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.artifact.repository/repositories/
> >> http
> >> \:__www.polarion.org_projects_subversive_download_eclipse_2.0_update-
> >> site/description=
>
> --
> Robert Konigsberg

> konigsb...@gmail.com

[Brian Chin]

Ask, and ye might eventually receive. I updated the preferences recorder wiki page with a short "How it works" section which gives a very high level overview of what the preference recorder actually does. Tell me if this isn't sufficient, or for any typos.

Thanks for your patronage,

- Brian Chin

[Jonathan Betz]

That's very helpful, thanks!

On May 27, 6:12 pm, Brian Chin <brianc...@google.com> wrote:
> Ask, and ye might eventually receive. I updated the preferences recorder
> wiki page with a short "How it works" section which gives a very high level
> overview of what the preference recorder actually does. Tell me if this
> isn't sufficient, or for any typos.
>
> Thanks for your patronage,
> - Brian Chin
>

[Robert Konigsberg]

Thanks for the positive feedback!

--
Robert Konigsberg
konig...@gmail.com