Hi,
On a more positive note, for the 2019-12 release, the installer exploits
the platform's cool "link handler" support that was implemented by
Matthias Becker; thanks Lars Vogel for drawing my attention to this gem.
As an example, this means that clicking the following link can
automatically launch the installer, in this case, initializing it in
order to provision a specialized IDE for contributing to SimRel.
eclipse+installer:https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/interim/SimultaneousReleaseTrainConfiguration.setup
It's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem that you must first download and
register the installer once. To make this step more self-documenting,
I've created a "help" page that describes how to exploit this feature:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/?url=https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/interim/SimultaneousReleaseTrainConfiguration.setup&show=true
This page uses the documentation extracted from the configuration
(specified in the query parameter) so that it's contextually tailored,
including all its links.
I've updated the simrel wiki to describe this automated approach to set
up an environment for contributing to simrel:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Simrel/Contributing_to_Simrel_Aggregation_Build#Get_the_simrel.build_project
So there isn't really a good excuse not to use the aggregation editor.
Admitted I too typically just edit my *.aggrcon files actually, but
mostly because saving creates such a big delta. But the editor does
have advantages, i.e., I can see if I pasted the URL incorrectly and
that the IUs resolve correctly. More importantly, as I mentioned
previously, if you're adding a feature that needs to be in a category or
removing a feature when it or any other feature after it are in a
category, you will break the model if you do this textually. And there
were many such broken links as a result...
This same mechanism can be used to provision a development environment
with the source for the full Platform SDK:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/?url=https://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/interim/PlatformSDKConfiguration.setup&show=true
You can do this for your own projects too. One-click contributions from
your community are at you finger tips.
In addition, this same mechanism can also be used to install marketplace
listings, e.g.,
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/installer/?url=https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/wild-web-developer-html-css-javascript-typescript-nodejs-angular-json-yaml-kubernetes-xml&show=true
So the installer now allows users to create an installation that
includes one more additional marketplace listings as well.
To help make the marketplace listings great again, the listings are now
tested daily. Bad listings give a bad impression of Eclipse, especially
when we provide them ourselves.
Currently there are 1316 marketplace listings that specify update
sites. Of those, 541 have problems; some have minor problems, e.g., it
can't be installed in the versions of Eclipse with which it's specified
to be compatible, but many have major problems, i.e., the p2 site
doesn't exist or doesn't contain the bundles/features that are required
by the listing. The user perception is that anything they get from
marketplace is "Eclipse" and any problem with those are "Eclipse"
problems...
If you maintain a listing, you can review the test results for your
listing as follows:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/marketplace/?url=https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/wild-web-developer-html-css-javascript-typescript-nodejs-angular-json-yaml-kubernetes-xml
For the above listing, we can see that it doesn't actually install in
versions of Eclipse older than Photon (and we can see why by clicking on
the error icons) so it would be best to improve this listing to exclude
those versions.
Thanks to the Foundation's awesome web designers, a link to these
listing-specific test results is available via the circled link on your
listing's site:
So if you maintain a marketplace listing, please help make it great too!!
If you have comments, suggestions, or concerns about the marketplace
listing reporting, please do so in:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550713
If you have comments, suggestions, or concerns about the installer's web
link support, please do so in:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551315
Regards,
Ed
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