Ciao Guys :) It surely is a busy time for you guys, let me thank you for putting some effort into answering my questions regardless of the huge efforts you are putting into M6/M7 right now! :)
When looking at the platform's metadata repositories filtering is quite heavily used to flag IUs as being for a specific host/arch/ws (osgi-wise) which is why I thought this concept might be the right choice in our filtering as well. However, some things are yet unclear to me, our strategy of using filters might need to change depending on the answers you are able to give here. Let's start with the one-liner, plz correct me if I'm wrong: Filters are conditions for installing an IU, conditions that need to be fulfilled by the Profile. Right? One example: If the IU has a filter of osgi.os=win32 the IProfile needs the property osgi.os set to "win32" (and only to that) in order for the Framework (Slicer.isApplicable()) to allow an installation. Assuming my statement to be (more or less ;)) true I have some questions along the way: 1.) UI : When presenting IUs to the user a query provider is consulted, but there is no IProfile context to filter the UI (thinking about the AVAILABLE_IU type). Here is what we want to do: First ask the user what hosts/archs etc. he wants to install and then use that information in both the UI and the installation itself. Is this possible at all? Are you guys thinking about this as well? 2.) Profiles: Can a profile have multiple values for the same property? Like osgi.os=linux&&win32? 2.1) Profiels.getParent(): I've seen the concept of child/parent profiles, this might help answer question #2, however, not sure how this might be accomplished... 3.) Dependencies: What's the proper filtering mechanism in terms of dependencies, i.e. what needs to be given the filter: the root-iu, config-ius, ius containing artifacts, all of them? 4.) Dependency errors during installation: Playing around a bit I managed to get a lot of IStatus.ERROR in my ProvisionPlan, is checking the plan for errors the right way to look at the sanity of the set of IUs I want to install? Thanks a lot for helping here, your help is certainly appreciated! :) Ciao, hh _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev
