I think that the suggestion to do extra director calls is the best approach.
I wrote this blog post http://aniefer.blogspot.com/2009/07/composing-and-updating-custom-eclipse.html which outlines doing this with PDE/Build. There are two major points, any dependencies from the product to the optional features should be expressed using version ranges. This is what Brian's suggestion with the p2.inf does. The second part is the extra director calls to add the features as top level installed items so that the regular update considers them. In PDE/Build there are customization points that allow performing this director call before the archive is created, I don't know if there is anything similar in Tycho. -Andrew From: Brian de Alwis <[email protected]> To: P2 developer discussions <[email protected]> Date: 05/17/2012 07:32 AM Subject: [p2-dev] Is it possible to install a feature into an RCP app at build time? Sent by: [email protected] On Wednesday, 16 May 2012, Trace Windham wrote: Unfortunately, it is not installed at the root level of installed features. Instead, the feature is a child of the main RCP feature of my RCP application, and therefore when updates are available for this child feature they are not found during the execution of the "Check For Updates" command in my RCP application. My requirement is that this feature be independently updatable without having to be manually installed by a user. I think this is what the patch in bug 361722 addresses. Do you think I'm accurate in this explanation? I'm not yet confident of my knowledge in this area. Technically these features can still be updated by p2 independently of the product, even though they aren't root-level. But I guess the p2 Update UI only considers root-level IUs. So I guess your antrun to install via the director is the best approach for now. Brian._______________________________________________ p2-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev
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