[equinox-dev] [prov] Director API experiments

2007-10-03 Thread Pascal Rapicault
Hi, Back in August, we had a discussion [1] around changing the director API (or having a Oracle) to enable scenarios like: - show the user with what will happen as a result of adding / removing an IU (e.g. compute the install size, etc.) - allow for download of the artifacts before doing

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] Director API experiments

2007-10-03 Thread Susan M Franklin
Here is my first impression. I might change my mind later after working with it awhile. I like the idea of IDirector2 replacing IDirector and putting some helper methods somewhere that perform phases for me if I give them a DirectorResult. But it would be cool if it doesn't even feel like

RE: [equinox-dev] [p2] UI priorities for M3

2007-10-03 Thread Walter Harley
Hi, Susan. Somewhat related to the update issue, I think, is https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174515, which concerns how users are notified when plugins on their machine have failed to load. I would really like to see some attention to this bug - partly because I'm responsible for