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Thomas Koch wrote:
> I'm not experienced enought with eclipse to know, whether such a setup
> would make sens for eclipse too. However what surely makes sense, would be
> the ability to install plugins not only as debian packages, but also via
> the eclipse update mechanism.
Yes, that's an absolute requirement for getting any sort of usefulness out
of Eclipse packaging.
> I've seen, that there formerly was a possibility to declare external
> plugin locations for eclipse with a "links" subfolder. But this is
> deprecated now and can only be reenabled with a config setting[1]. Does
> anybody know an equivalent way to use additional plugin locations?
Yes. Eclipse now has a "drop-ins" mechanism (see the p2 documentation). An
installation can have any number of "drop-in folders". These are directories
where plugins can be placed, and they will be automatically picked up by
Equinox. Upstream Eclipse has "eclipse/dropins" as the default dropins
folder.
So it would be good if the Eclipse package had the following drop-ins
folders by default:
/usr/local/share/eclipse/dropins
${user.home}/.eclipse/dropins
Plus other directories for Debian-packaged plugins, typically under
/usr/share/eclipse. That should cover most needs.
(I'm not sure how the user would *disable* plugins that are installed
system-wide.)
Cheers,
Marcus
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