[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-4859) Create new categories for JBT/JBDS update sites

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-4859:
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Per comments in the discussion thread (to which I can't reply using Opera), the idea of having a single feature that's installable/uninstallable in one go is certainly interesting, but will require some investigation into how EPP builds work in order to achieve. 

Failing that we can simply continue to have a category which includes everything (except 3rd party integrations) so that entire blocks of function can be installed w/ a single click.

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Oh, and FYI, nested categories are now possible, as of Eclipse 3.5.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Customizing_Metadata#Category_Generation_Using_p2.inf

Looks like all that's needed is to add p2.inf files which "tag a feature as a category"; so if we had an "all in one" feature, we could expose it as a category, and thus it would (presumably) be able to show features within that category. 

But would having:

a\
    c1\
        f1
    c2\
        f2

vs.

a\
    f1
    f2
c1\
    f1
c2\
    f2

really help users significantly? Or would it actually make things harder to find?


> Create new categories for JBT/JBDS update sites
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-4859
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-4859
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Build/Releng
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.0.M3
>            Reporter: Nick Boldt
>            Assignee: Max Rydahl Andersen
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 3.1.0.CR2
>
>         Attachments: jbtupdatesitesuggestion.png, screenshot-1.jpg, Screenshot-1.png, Screenshot-2.png, site.xml
>
>
> Renamed to capture current thrust of issue: should we have more categories than we currently do on the update site? Expose more/less features? This is a branding/marketing/ease of use question, so for now I'm bouncing it over to Max for comments.

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