This is related to the discussion about a year or so ago about having more frequent or even continuous updates to the composite repo. That didn't go anywhere, unfortunately.
- Konstantin -----Original Message----- From: cross-project-issues-dev-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Hallgren Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 5:02 AM To: cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Equinox fix for Luna SR1 now available as a feature patch in "4.4" repository. +1 I would really like to see p2 leveraged (the way it was designed to) to make it really easy to push fixes like this out to the community in a controlled but swift manner. - thomas On 2014-11-02 11:07, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: > On 31 Oct 2014, at 19:56, David M Williams wrote: > >> I am not sure if this bug was discussed directly on this list, or, >> just some of its predecessors, but, we have an "official fix" >> available for anyone impacted by > > Really appreciate the work for fixing this nasty subtle bug. > > But can we have a chat about why the Eclipse release train does not > seem to have a *good* way to release updates for this ? > > By "Good" I mean one that just gets available via Check For Updates > rather that one that does not require users to aware of having to install a specific feature patch ? > > I think Eclipse survived this far because we haven't really had any > big "all impacting stop ship bugs", but lately they are starting to crop up - this issue with System properties being the worst one (that I know of). > > Can someone remind me why we can't in these cases do an update that > fixes this bug ? Is it technical because the release train is to > hardly coupled and we have feature's using exact versions and that p2 won't let you update the plugins on their own ? > > ...or is there also some political agenda on how we provide these updates ? > > In any case - I think it would be worth finding a way to update these > technical and political limitations to make it easier to do timely stop-ship bug updates? > > wdyt ? > > /max > http://about.me/maxandersen > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or > unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev