All, I've written up a few notes on the Shared Install and a quick summary of what Andrew and I will be doing to start an implementation. Online at:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_Provisioning_Shared_Install Cheers, Tim On 8/21/07, Tim Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pascal, > > In the case of a shared linux installation, there is the potential that > what you could describe would work though for other situations such as with > Maya where the "shared" profile comes from a location other than the local > file system, this would be a bit simplistic. For a first pass Andrew and I > are going to do an implementation that would run the reconciler on each > launch. Once we determine the performance impacts of doing so, we will then > determine if it is worth optimizing the algorithm further. This will allow > us to get our feet wet with the provisioning code and have something running > in hopefully short order. > > I'll go ahead and write up some of the discussions on a Wiki page. > > Tim > > On 8/21/07, Pascal Rapicault < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Tim, Andrew, > > > > For records, could you guys write a short wiki describing the various > > approaches we talked about to implement shared installs? In a few months > > this will help us remember why/or not we've done what we've done :-) > > > > Also , following the call, Simon and I had further discussions and > > believe > > a good approach would be: > > - simple configurator reads the user bundles.txt > > - simple configurator reads the shared bundles txt > > - if the shared bundles.txt has changed, only run with its content > > (ignore > > bundles from the user), since it should be a consistent whole (composed > > of > > the agent / reconciler) > > - then run the reconciler on the running profile (we may need another > > operation on the director or something like that). Note here I'm not > > saying > > when it is actually run and this should just be configurable. > > > > Something like that offers the advantage that > > - we don't need to have another configurator as we had touched on > > previously > > - we should always be able to start something > > - gives flexibility as to when the reconciliation should be done > > > > HTH, > > > > PaScaL > > > > _______________________________________________ > > equinox-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev > > > >
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