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    <p><strong>Simple usecase</strong>: assemble an Eclipse product using simple scripts, <em>just dumping bundles into the plugins dir</em>. This used to work with 3.3 - with 3.5 it's broken: my application doesn't start as the app plugin is not found.</p> <p><strong>Question</strong>: what's the easiest way to fix that? This seems to be the only pain in the whole upgrade process for me.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Attempts</strong>: I guess this is a no-no for P2: it maintains the bundles.info file instead, which is probably very smart.. a bit too smart for me.</p> <p>Some ideas I had:</p> <ol> <li>can I just skip P2 altogether and get back to plain old, simple -dirty- discovery mechanism? </li> <li>can I set up plugins dir as a 'watched directory' <ul> <li>looks like I need to use the p2.reconciler for that.. oh wait, it's deprecated already :-( <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251561#c18" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bug 251561</a>.. (thanks VonC for the pointer)</li> </ul></li> <li>can this old setting in the config.ini still work? (which is now replaced with the 'simpleconfigurator') <code>osgi.bundles=org.eclipse.equinox.common@2:start, org.eclipse.update.configurator@3:start, org.eclipse.core.runtime@start</code></li> <li>should I call the (p2) director? "please pick my plugins up" :)</li> <li>I'd avoid the dropin folder for this - that's more for the end-users.</li> <li>I'd avoid messing with the bundles.info if possible.</li> </ol> <p>I don't care about all those smart features in my product yet- actually the users don't use the built-in update mechanism at all. So I'd like to KISS (ie: just to start up), and add more advanced support <em>when needed</em>.</p> <p>I've asked this on <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=tree&amp;goto=336485&amp;S=7746358f2b8b65fd82a1cb376a57c9ed#page_top" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Eclipse forums</a>, but no answer yet, so would really be grateful for some enlightenment. Also, feel free to correct me on the assumptions - I've just read the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Category:Equinox_p2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">P2 docs</a>, which seem confusing at times. Thanks!</p> <hr> <p><strong>Answer</strong>: actually option 3 above seems to work after all - thanks <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/80906/francis-upton">Francis</a> for confirming this! (it didn't work originally, but that was probably caused by some missing deps). My only issue with that now is, some Eclipse bundles actually require simpleconfigurator. So I wonder if swapping it out will cause problems down the line.</p>
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