James can expand, but some things that I recall from a declarative system
we built on top of the old installhandler code:

* copying files (ie., we package our own launcher and copy it to a proper
location... we also package vms as bundles)
* native operations
      * creating icons in menus or on a desktop if available
      * creating windows registry entries
* setting environment variables
* modifying files on disk
* chmod'ng things
* running arbitrary scripts (ya, I know, scary) like .bat or .sh's

That's all I can remember off the top of my head.

Cheers,

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James, to enlight us, could you please describe the kind of things that you
are doing with install handlers?



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Please either add javadoc info or wiki info on the design of the
org.eclipse.equinox.prov.touchpoint.natives and . This appears to be where
install handler equivalent functionality would be performed. I don't need
extensive docs. I just need to know the plan so I can evaluate how it can
be used. We use the install handlers extensively in the current eclipse and
I am attempting to locate the home for this functionality. Also is Rhino
JavaScript envisioned to be the main scripting mechanism for the native
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