Ian Bull wrote: > 4. Don't use .lock files, but instead use the artifacts.jar as the lock > file. This seems like the best solution and I've spent some time this > weekend prototyping it. There are a few challenges with this approach that > may be show stoppers (we allow users to change the 'shape' of the > repository -- from .jar to .xml. This means that the .lock file will > suddenly change; how do we deal with this? Also, what comes first, the > repository or the lock?).
What is the use case of changing the shape? I can't imagine why you'd want to do that. Locking is a very useful feature, and if mutable shape is blocking a good solution, just drop that "feature". Best regards Tobias _______________________________________________ p2-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev
