| STEM Creating Updates based on features. |
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| Assume that you have STEM version 0.2.1M1 distributed on the download |
| site as zip files for each supported platform (Win,Linux,Mac) |
| and you later want to publish an update for 0.2.1M2. |
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| The users had originally installed STEM by downloading the |
| appropriate 0.2.1M1 zip file and unziping it and running the STEM rcp. |
| They will use the Help->update feature to install the updates for 0.2.1M2. |
| For simplicity, the 0.2.1M2 updates consist of code for all the |
| org.eclipse.stem projects but none of the plugin dependencies |
| or platform dependencies. |
| Ability to update only parts of the STEM code is left as a future feature. |
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| If you are going to generate a STEM application for platforms other |
| than the platform that you are running Eclipse on, then you need to |
| download and install the 3.3 delta-pack |
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| http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.3-200706251500/eclipse-RCP-3.3-delta-pack.zip |
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| STEM projects. |
| org.eclipse.stem.feature |
| feature.xml |
| Contains the stem plugins |
| - Update as required: |
| - Version should be 0.2.1M1 |
| - Update Site URL should be specified |
| Point to org.eclipse download site where the |
| update feature will be placed. ????? |
| (For testing you can point to a local file system |
| like file:/c:eclipse/updatesite ) |
| org.eclipse.stem.feature.prereq |
| feature.xml |
| Contains a list of all the prereq plugins. |
| The list was generated from stem.product which was used to |
| generate the initial STEM rcp. |
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| Update Site URL should be specified same as above. |
| org.eclipse.stem.ui |
| stem.product |
| This is the original product file and can still be used |
| to run the application within eclipse with debug. |
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| feature.product |
| Now used to generate the STEM rcp from the above 2 features. |
| It includes the following features. |
| org.eclipse.stem.feature |
| org.eclipse.stem.feature.prereq |
| org.eclipse.rcp |
| org.eclipse.platform |
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| create the distributable rcp by using the export selection in |
| feature.product -> overview |
| It will prompt you for the platforms to generate for. |
| It will run about an hour for each one. |
| You will now have one or more zip files containing the STEM application. |
| Place them on the download site. |
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| Platform dependent generation. |
| The feature.prereq zip file contains the platform independent |
| files and should not need to be regenerated. It is generated |
| similar to the feature.zip but using the feature.xml file from |
| the feature.prereq file. This contains all of the prereq plugins |
| and should not need to be updated except when Eclpse platform |
| changes. |
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| To create an update |
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| - Import the org.eclipse.stem.feature project if not already |
| available. |
| - Select the feature.xml file |
| - Select the overview tab. |
| - Update as required: |
| - Version should be 0.2.1M2 |
| - Update Site URL should be specified |
| Point to org.eclipse download site where the |
| update feature will be placed. |
| - Select "export" on the "overview" tab for feature.xml. |
| - The generated zip file should be unzipped into the |
| update site. |
| - A new distribution zip file for the 0.2.2M2 STEM RCP should also |
| be created as above and uploaded to the download site for |
| new users. |
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