On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Chathuri Wimalasena <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> For CS 2.0.0, we need to have Eclipse GMF related bundles installed in to
> the Eclipse instance that is running.


Why?

What is GMF used for?

If not everything in CS uses GMF, why chip 40/50+ by default?




> At the moment what we do is, ask users to do an online installation of CS
> 2.0.0, so all the needed bundles will be downloaded and installed. This
> online installation takes sometime, if the internet connection of the user
> is not strong enough. A jira [1] is also being reported. As another option
> what we can do is add all the GMF related bundles inside CS 2.0.0
> distribution which will allow users to install CS in very short period. But
> this has some drawbacks such as
>
>    - Distribution will be increased by 40-50MB of size
>    - Needed plugin list is huge (near 115 bundles) and all those bundles
>    should be added to the pom and maven repo
>    - Once we do that, we stick to  a specific version of those plugins.
>    But if we allow online installation, it will always download the latest
>    versions from the repos
>
> We are planning to give two distributions as online installation (which
> will be less in size, but take some time to install) and offline
> installation (which will be extra 40-50MB in size, but take very small time
> to install). WDYT ?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Chathuri
>
> [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/TOOLS-878
>
> --
> Chathuri Wimalasena
> Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.;  http://wso2.com/
> email: [email protected]; phone: +94 772 608 596
> blog: http://chathuriwimalasena.blogspot.com/
>
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