The rationale is to have a single repository, and the product profiles to point to that repository. This will drastically reduce the size of distributions such as Stratos. What is the plan to make this work?
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Pradeep Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sameera/Pradeep, > > What is the status of this? > > We never started such work. At least the title is different. ;) You > are referring to the equinox migration I'm doing right now. While > doing the migration, > we decided to generate product profiles from the scratch. (right now > we are provisioning to a already available profile - kind of hard > coded). > > I was able to migrate carbon to new equinox-3.7. In the process I > wrote some maven plugins to create profiles based on eclipse .product > files. > > Heres what happens right now - my local version. > > 1. publish feartures/bundles to p2-repo > 2. publish product definition (.product file) to p2-repo > 3. materialize the product. > > > This brings two advantages : > > 1. future equinox migrations will be trivial ( since equinox libs > itself is bundled as a feature) > 2. we can create products using new maven plugins. (we can say: create > the p2 aware product Appserver with the profileName wso2.appserver and > use the /target/bundlePool as the bundle location). - *so several > products can share the same bundle location*. > > > My status : > > 1. during the process I had to get rid of the p2-agent (which was used > as the minimal p2-runtime as well as the initial carbon profile). I > used some of the tycho libs as the p2-runtime and hence had to migrate > carbon to maven3 build system. I did that upto feature level. > > 2. Equinox migration is finished. > 3. things like touchpoints are working. > > 4. Right now I'm doing the feature manager upgrade. Ideally old > p2-libs should work with new equinox. But we are using p2-libs with > some provisional APIs. almost all the APIs have changed in p2 after > that. > > > > > thanks, > --Pradeep > -- *Afkham Azeez* Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ * <http://www.apache.org/>** email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* * * *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware*
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