On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:42 PM Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 6:24 PM Nitin Dahyabhai <thatnit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Unfortunately the problem Ed brought up where downstream projects would >> have to reproduce what the Platform does for its Jetty problems is already >> here. WTP needs more Jetty bundles than the Platform provides, and if the >> Platform is using 10.0.1, it would be foolish for me to ship using anything >> else, even 10.0.2. >> >> I don't know who was taking care of >> https://download.eclipse.org/jetty/updates/jetty-bundles-9.x/, but there >> needs to be something similar for 10.x, and likely 11.x, to serve as a >> canonical p2 repository for all of it. Pulling jars directly from Maven >> seems well suited to products, RCP apps, and configurations that aren't >> expected to be built upon, but for the Platform to use this approach only >> complicates matters. The Platform is an unavoidable middleman in this case. >> > It was about time for everyone to realize that "The Platform is an > unavoidable middleman in this case." - thanks for stating it that clearly. > We have mostly abandoned our CDT/Linux Tools plugins so we can keep the > Platform running but it's time for others to jump in. > I was the one doing it lately and it was a full rebuild breaking quite > often which I couldn't afford time to redo for 10.x esp with team > shrinking, no one replied to request for help on platform releng and > gaining additional responsibilities. I would welcome anyone stepping up and > doing things in a more general and reusable way - unless/until that happens > I see no other way to keep things but to take the shortest path. There are > simply that many hours in the day and what I or someone else wants doesn't > change the speed of the clock. > if you can point me at how this was done previously with jetty 9.x I may try to care for this. In JGit we are still depending on jetty 9.x since we still want to support Java 8 and we were piggy-backing on the jetty 9.x p2 repos maintained by the platform. I was already wondering where to get a p2 repo for the latest 9.x jetty releases, while platform moved on to jetty 10. I am not listening on the platform releng list, that's why I didn't see your request for help. > >> -- >> Regards, >> Nitin Dahyabhai >> Eclipse WTP PMC >> _______________________________________________ >> cross-project-issues-dev mailing list >> cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, visit >> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >> > > > -- > Aleksandar Kurtakov > Red Hat Eclipse Team > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >
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