Installing external plug-ins manually: Difference between revisions
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== Finding the Update Site === | == Finding the Update Site === | ||
The first thing to do is to find the update site from which the plug-ins are downloaded by the Rodin platform. For the default | The first thing to do is to find the update site from which the plug-ins are downloaded by the Rodin platform. For the default sites, one can find their list in file <tt>feature.xml</tt> in the <tt>org.eventb.ide</tt> feature. In a regular installation, this file has path <tt>features/org.eventb.ide_0.8.2/feature.xml</tt> relative to the root of the installation tree. | ||
From the URL given in this file, download the corresponding <tt>site.xml</tt> file that describes the available features from the corresponding site. For instance, for the B4free provers, the URL in the <tt>feature.xml</tt> file is | |||
http://bmethod.com/update_site/b4free_provers | |||
Hence, the file to retrieve is | |||
http://bmethod.com/update_site/b4free_provers/site.xml | |||
At the time of writing, this file contains: | |||
<nowiki> | |||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |||
<site> | |||
<feature url="features/com.b4free.rodin_0.8.3.jar" | |||
id="com.b4free.rodin" | |||
version="0.8.3" | |||
os="linux,macosx,win32" | |||
arch="ppc,x86"/> | |||
</site> | |||
</nowiki> | |||
Revision as of 12:56, 1 July 2008
Although it is preferred to install additional plug-ins into the Rodin platform using the Update Manager of Eclipse, this might not always be practical. In this case, a manner to install these plug-ins is to emulate either manually or using ad-hoc scripts the operations normally performed by the Update Manager.
This manual installation of plug-ins is described below, using the example of the B4free provers.
Finding the Update Site =
The first thing to do is to find the update site from which the plug-ins are downloaded by the Rodin platform. For the default sites, one can find their list in file feature.xml in the org.eventb.ide feature. In a regular installation, this file has path features/org.eventb.ide_0.8.2/feature.xml relative to the root of the installation tree.
From the URL given in this file, download the corresponding site.xml file that describes the available features from the corresponding site. For instance, for the B4free provers, the URL in the feature.xml file is
http://bmethod.com/update_site/b4free_provers
Hence, the file to retrieve is
http://bmethod.com/update_site/b4free_provers/site.xml
At the time of writing, this file contains: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <site> <feature url="features/com.b4free.rodin_0.8.3.jar" id="com.b4free.rodin" version="0.8.3" os="linux,macosx,win32" arch="ppc,x86"/> </site>
