On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 00:36 +0000, Doug Schaefer wrote: > +1 for that. I've seen (and made for that matter) commercial products > do that. Download a minimal p2 install with an Eclipse application > that drives the rest of the install. We could ask for a list of > languages or platforms they want to develop for and then install the > necessary components.
I'm very skeptical about P2 in the downloader. It was created in the past (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Installer) and never made into real world. AFAIK it would suffer from the same issues as regular P2 - does require java to be pre-downloaded, no real integration with the system (privileges elevation) and extreme vulnerability to users. I'd rather focus on opening P2 to 3rd party installers [1] and offered users more OS-specific experience. No need to reinvent the wheel. [1] Bug 378329: Support 3rd party installers -- Krzysztof Daniel <[email protected]> Red Hat _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
