It's really hard to say. Suppose (and I hope this does not happen), we release a 2.0.x that actually has some problem with it. In such a case, people may want to revert back to an SDK that works for them.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Chris Lercher <[email protected]>wrote: > Ok, I understand. But if this is only about making it possible to keep > multiple SDKs at the same time, then I would use > > "com.google.gwt.eclipse.sdkbundle.e35.feature.2.0" instead of > "com.google.gwt.eclipse.sdkbundle.e35.feature.2.0.0" > > Or do people actually want to keep both "2.0.0" and "2.0.1" around? > > > On Feb 9, 5:00 pm, Rajeev Dayal <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem has to do with the P2 system used in Eclipse 3.4+. This is > the > > provisioning system, which is responsible for plugin installation and > > management. > > > > Every so often, P2 performs a "garbage collection" of plugins that are no > > longer used by Eclipse. If you deliver SDKs by using plugins as the > delivery > > mechanism, P2 deletes the older ones, because Eclipse only runs the > latest > > version of a given plugin. > > > > By modifying the plugin ID every time we deliver a new SDK, we prevent P2 > > from garbage-collecting older SDKs. > > > > While this is not an ideal solution, it's a decent compromise until we > can > > come up with another way to deliver SDKs during the Eclipse installation > > process. > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Chris Lercher <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Feb 5, 4:41 pm, Rajeev Dayal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Actually, the problem is that when we release a new SDK, the feature > id > > > > changes, > > > > > I'm curious: Why do you change it? If I understand it correctly, > > > Eclipse features shouldn't contain the version number as a part of > > > their feature id. The feature.xml offers a separate 'version' > > > attribute. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]><google-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs > [email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
