On 2011-09-26, Nicolas Lalevée wrote: > Le 26 sept. 2011 à 06:04, Stefan Bodewig a écrit :
>> On 2011-09-25, Nicolas Lalevée wrote: >>> I suggest we change our updatesite to be P2 only, thus requiring >>> Eclipse 3.5. But for those who still have an Eclipse 3.4, they will >>> still be able to install IvyDE, but the manual way [2]. >> Could there be some way to provide an additional 3.2 compatible page >> that only linked to the old releases at archives.a.o? And a page for >> 3.4 that only installs the latest version from the mirror network. > I guess this is doable. But this bring complexity in our build and in > our release process. Understood. At least the 3.2 page for old releases should be static and not need to be touched on new releases, though. > With the P2 repository, I think we will be able to have a single point > of entry for the end user (the current updatesite url). This main repo > would reference other p2 repositories on the mirrored servers, and > other p2 repositories on the archive. On the mirrored ones, there will > be one repo of the latest ivy release, another repo for the latest > ivyde release. Even though I don't understand the details, it sounds reasonable and I trust you. I can't judge the merits of p2 over old style repositories myself and will leave the decision to those who actually know a bit about Eclipse. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
