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Suggestion: add Eclipse-UnpackBundlle: to manifest: msg#00073ide.eclipse.equinox.devel
I'd like to propose an addition of Eclipse-UnpackBundle: to the Manfest.MF, in much the same way that Eclipse-AutoStart: is a documented entry in the manifest. The purpose would be to describe whether the bundle should be unpacked during installation, or left as a packed Jar file. Currently, the update manager determines whether a plugin/bundle should be unpacked based on an entry in its corresponding feature.xml. However, for bundles that are commonly shared between deployments (e.g. something like org.apache.log4j) it would be efficient to store this information in one place rather than many, since whether a bundle should be unpacked or not is a function of the bundle itself rather than the feature that hosts it. Since this entry would be unused at this time, perhaps it would be best described as a hint to the underlying platform rather than a mandatory entry. However, the PDE tooling could subsequently be updated to ensure that the feature.xml and bundle are in step with these values. Once the adoption becomes more widespread, an update manager that utilises this property would be able to install bundles and know whether to unpack them or not regardless of the feature(s) that they were associated with. Alex. |
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