Re: [equinox-dev] Initial Provisioning name and how it relates to Equinox Provisioning

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff McAffer
agent (e.g. New Equinox Provisioning, OBR, old Eclipse Update Manager etc.). I do not think Initial Provisioning implementation should depend on the Equinox provisioning work. Thoughts? Tom Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/08/2007 04:50 PM Please respond

Re: [equinox-dev] What to do with 3.3.1 candidate bugs and milestones

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff McAffer
i thought we were all already doing #2... Jeff Thomas Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/2007 01:42 PM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject [equinox-dev] What to do with 3.3.1 candidate bugs

[equinox-dev] New code released

2007-07-31 Thread Jeff McAffer
I released some changes to the way that the metadata generator is run as well as some refactorings of Repo abbreviations and inconsistencies in class names. Generator is now a real application (no longer used the system properties) and should be somewhat simpler to run/manage. If you have

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] Native touchpoint

2007-08-08 Thread Jeff McAffer
Now onto the answers to the questions: This appears to be where install handler equivalent functionality would be performed This would only be true if what you were trying to achieve in the install handlers were OS level things. Other things may need to be done by other touchpoints.

Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox coding conventions

2007-08-21 Thread Jeff McAffer
Great! Thanks Tom. Can someone do this for the provisioning projects as well? Some of them have the some of the right settings but it would be good to have a complete pass over them to ensure consistency etc. Jeff Thomas Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/21/2007

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] wondering how pluggable the IU user model is

2007-08-22 Thread Jeff McAffer
I see. - A user installs both CDT and DSDP at the same time and sees this set as C tooling. An entry points named C tooling is created. Who picked the name C tooling (and when)? if the user in this scenario originally picked CDT and DSDP then they must have picked the overall name.feels

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] wondering how pluggable the IU user model is

2007-08-22 Thread Jeff McAffer
I think I am more confused now. On the one hand it seems that the name of the entry point is picked at install time by the user but later you say entry points are just IUs with a special tag that the UI decides to show by default. And further contradictory As for the name of entry point

[equinox-dev] Equinox Summit reminder

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff McAffer
As Labour (or Labor) Day looms on the horizon signalling the end of summer it is time to start planning that Fall travel schedule. What schedule would be complete without a trip to Ottawa at the end of September for the Equinox Summit? http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_Summit_2007 The

Re: [equinox-dev] Profile for the running instance

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff McAffer
I thought we already had this. The current profile was called this I think (or perhaps self). I recall adding the function when I did the provisioning helper etc. Jeff Pascal Rapicault/Ottawa/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/2007 09:16 PM Please respond to Equinox

[equinox-dev] [prov] directory watcher

2007-08-29 Thread Jeff McAffer
I finally did something that has been on my list for quite some time. Inspired by Peter Kriens' FileInstall bundle, I made a DirectoryWatcher that, as the name implies, watches a directory and installs, uninstalls, configures, ... things that are dropped into/removed from/changed in the dir.

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] directory watcher

2007-08-30 Thread Jeff McAffer
for this project :-) PaScaL From: Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org Date: 08/30/2007 08:58 AM Subject:Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] directory watcher For the most part

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] directory watcher

2007-08-30 Thread Jeff McAffer
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[equinox-dev] [prov] request handler orientation

2007-08-30 Thread Jeff McAffer
looking through the artifact repo code I noticed that the way it is now, MirrorRequests get/are given a RequestHandler and then that is used to do the actual file transfer. Is there a usecase that drives the repo communication policy to be externally defined? That is, is there a reason that

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] ECF in P2, was request handler orientation

2007-08-31 Thread Jeff McAffer
that delivers updates like torrents do? ECF can do that, but can the current ECFHandler do it? So my conclusion is that it would be good to have a solution that allow to define request handlers externally. Stefan Jeff McAffer wrote: looking through the artifact repo code I noticed that the way

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] ECF in P2, was request handler orientation

2007-08-31 Thread Jeff McAffer
the current ECFHandler do it? So my conclusion is that it would be good to have a solution that allow to define request handlers externally. Stefan Jeff McAffer wrote: looking through the artifact repo code I noticed that the way it is now, MirrorRequests get/are given a RequestHandler

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] ECF in P2, was request handler orientation

2007-08-31 Thread Jeff McAffer
Thanks for all the comments and info Scott (and others). First, this thread started with something completely unrelated to ECF. I was just interested in whether the call to RequestHandler.download() happen in the MirrorRequest or somewhere in the ArtifactRepository (or elsewhere). In the

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] ECF in P2, was request handler orientation

2007-09-02 Thread Jeff McAffer
equinox-dev@eclipse.org To Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] ECF in P2, was request handler orientation Jeff, shall I start to revive the push model? I think I have some backups ;-) Stefan Jeff McAffer wrote: Thanks for all

Re: AW: AW: [equinox-dev] [sec] JAAS framework dependency on Eclipse

2007-09-05 Thread Jeff McAffer
I've found were dead. OSGi services and the whiteboard pattern sounds to me like a natural replacement for things like the CallbackHandler extension point. But I don't know the other approaches (yet). Regards Arthur Jeff McAffer wrote: All of the standard discussions should follow here

[equinox-dev] Equinox Summit: No registration, no food...

2007-09-05 Thread Jeff McAffer
We are three weeks from the Equinox Summit (see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_Summit_2007) and the Foundation events team needs to start finalizing catering and other arrangements. I know that there are several people who have said they would like to come but have not yet registered. If you

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] directory watcher

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff McAffer
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[equinox-dev] [prov] processing steps, restartable downloads and ECF

2007-09-07 Thread Jeff McAffer
Thanks to Stefan we have been introducing the notion of ProcessingSteps to munge the content as it is downloaded from an artifact repository. This allows for things like inline MD5 digest checking, unpack200 processing, delta merging, signature checking, ... All great stuff. Pascal just

[equinox-dev] [vote] graduating the new jar processor bundle

2007-09-09 Thread Jeff McAffer
As you may know, we used to have the JARProcessor embedded in the bowels of Update manager. Turns out that there are several uses for the processor (pack200 support, signing, verifying, ...) and having this function as a stand-alone bundle would be a good thing(tm). So in the p2 work we did

[equinox-dev] [prov] p2 naming

2007-09-11 Thread Jeff McAffer
Just to nip this in the bud... The proposed, voted on and approved name is p2 not P2. Jeff ___ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev

Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox-Bundles component is getting crowded

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff McAffer
BJ Hargrave wrote on 09/12/2007 03:33:59 PM: I am not sure this is true. According to portal.eclipse.org, I am a committer on eclipse, eclipse.equinox and eclipse.incubator. Thus it would seem to me we only need to elect one to eclipse.equinox to have commit rights to all the framework

Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox-Bundles component is getting crowded

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff McAffer
yes but under the new plan you pointed out, the commit rights will be managed by groups and groups will have a 1:1 relationship to components and components will have associated leads, bugzilla entries, websites, ... This is alot of infrastructure to put in place for each bundle. We did

Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox-Bundles component is getting crowded

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff McAffer
: +1 386 848 1781 mobile: +1 386 848 3788 From: Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org Date: 2007-09-12 16:03 Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox-Bundles component is getting crowded yes but under the new plan you pointed out, the commit

Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox-Bundles component is getting crowded

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff McAffer
BJ Hargrave wrote on 09/13/2007 03:13:56 PM: Why not reify the structure we think we have? I think part of the issue is that there is no common view of the structure we think we have to reify it. I agree that there is likely no common view currently. That does not mean there cannot be

Re: AW: [equinox-dev] Equinox-Bundles component is getting crowded

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff McAffer
and back end and not in itself guarantee that people would easily find what they are looking for. Arthur Jeff McAffer wrote: to me it is neither of these options. It is about community and clarity for our consumers. Walking up to Equinox you just have a sea of bundles. Add in the p2

Re: [equinox-dev] Moving Service Activator Toolkit (SAT) from the Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) to Equinox

2007-09-29 Thread Jeff McAffer
Great. I will request a move review. Likely it will not happen for a couple weeks because of ESE etc. In the mean time, if someone wants to look at/use the code they can go to OHF and play as they do today. I agree with Simon coming on as a committer. Jeff Grahame Grieve [EMAIL

Re: [equinox-dev] class not found in the same package

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff McAffer
I'd suggest you try using the PDE manifest clean up wizard as well. It should detect all the right imports and uses required by the code in your bundle. In the future look also for some help from the PDE API tools. These will be able to report on what exactly your bundles consume from and

Re: [equinox-dev] Moving Service Activator Toolkit (SAT) from the Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) to Equinox

2007-10-01 Thread Jeff McAffer
As Pascal mentioned SAT would be just one element available from the Equinox project. Felix has ipojo, jmood, mosgi, ... and other things that are add-on elements people can use in developing their bundles. SAT is no different. If (and I mean if) SAT is adopted by parts of the Eclipse

Re: [equinox-dev][prov] Staged update

2007-10-12 Thread Jeff McAffer
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Re: [equinox-dev][prov] Staged update

2007-10-14 Thread Jeff McAffer
. Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/2007 04:05 PM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject Re: [equinox-dev][prov] Staged update Thanks

Re: [equinox-dev][prov] Staged update

2007-10-15 Thread Jeff McAffer
updates automatically (yes/no), etc. Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/14/2007 11:08 AM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject Re: [equinox-dev

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] p2 / browser integration

2007-10-23 Thread Jeff McAffer
for use on the web could make this more intuitive. (Susan, I haven't looked at the new UI yet, so please forgive me if some of this is no longer applicable) -Brett Jeff McAffer wrote: I agree that forcing people to browse via Elcipse is unfortunate. It will address some of the usecases

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] generator changes

2007-10-23 Thread Jeff McAffer
have a stable metadata file format. The launcher metadata could be authored at develop time, and checked into CVS alongside the actual launcher files. Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/23/2007 02:44 PM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] Framework Admin test

2007-10-24 Thread Jeff McAffer
Please add it to both PSF files. I noticed it in one but not the other. As a point of interest, we should try to keep things sorted in the PSFs so they are easier to read/manage. The new test entry seems to have been inserted somewhat randomly. Jeff Pascal Rapicault/Ottawa/[EMAIL

[equinox-dev] [prov] Target Management infrastructure

2007-10-28 Thread Jeff McAffer
One of the things that I learned at ESE was that the Target Management folks in DSDP have a number of interesting infrastructure bits for talking to and manipulating remote systems. Some of these might be interesting for us in implementing bootstrap agents or direct transfer/communications

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] multi-platform agent installs

2007-10-28 Thread Jeff McAffer
would it be hard to continue to produce the server downloads? I'm tihnking that if someone wants to test but not hit eclipse.org it would be good ot have the content local. Jeff DJ Houghton/Ottawa/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/26/2007 03:15 PM Please respond to Equinox

Re: [equinox-dev] [sec] questions about EE for security

2007-11-01 Thread Jeff McAffer
Just to be really clear, the presence of javax.* package is not necessarily an EE issue. As an example, javax.management (JMX API) is part of Java 1.5 but there are third party implementations available that allow JMX to be used on Foundation 1.0 systems. As such, one can run a bundle that

Re: [equinox-dev] optimizers, tests and temp files

2007-11-13 Thread Jeff McAffer
. This will be more of an issue when we are running on the Eclipse project test machines that have various OSes and file system layouts. Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/12/2007 08:53 PM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org

[equinox-dev] [prov] More info about More Info?

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff McAffer
are converting an existing Update site 2) should we provide a similar mechanism in p2 3) if so, where does this play in the UI Jeff - Forwarded by Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/IBM on 12/04/2007 10:04 PM - Dejan Glozic/Toronto/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/2007 11:00 AM Please

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] install / uninstall / update (was Configuration Admin bug)

2007-12-10 Thread Jeff McAffer
It may be interesting to consider that during the provisioning operation, we do (may) know enough context to describe updates vs. uninstall/install. The problem we have now is that we lose information between the Director/Engine and the simple configurator. Not sure exactly how to retain the

Re: [equinox-dev] Fw: [cross-project-issues-dev] Wiki standardization?

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff McAffer
pages appear under /Equinox or /Eclipse/Equinox would make sense to me. Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/2007 04:55 PM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject [equinox-dev] Fw

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] Comments on wiki Equinox p2 Shared Install Plan

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff McAffer
Hey James, this is alot of good information. Would you have a chance to update the shared install scenarios document to highlight some of the points? My gut feeling from reading your comments is that most of what you suggest is do-able wrt the underlying infrastructure but the current

Re: [equinox-dev] Jetty and commons logging

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff McAffer
Dave, Try and get the stuff from Eclipse rather than Maven. We have no idea what is in that maven repo nor do we have any control over the form of the dependencies that might be listed in the maven markup. Teh commons logging bundle that comes from Eclipse does have version numbers so I

Re: [equinox-dev] Jetty and commons logging

2008-01-05 Thread Jeff McAffer
Subject Re: [equinox-dev] Jetty and commons logging Jeff McAffer wrote: Try and get the stuff from Eclipse rather than Maven. Oops, my apologies. Where is the Maven repo at Eclipse then? That one at repo1.maven.org was the nearest thing I could find. Dave. -- View this message

Re: [equinox-dev] Jetty and commons logging

2008-01-05 Thread Jeff McAffer
mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject Re: [equinox-dev] Jetty and commons logging On Jan 5, 2008 2:38 PM, Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave, there isn't one. For the most part Eclipse teams use the PDE tooling

Re: [equinox-dev] Jetty and commons logging

2008-01-06 Thread Jeff McAffer
/2008 01:35 PM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject Re: [equinox-dev] Jetty and commons logging On Jan 6, 2008 1:18 AM, Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I won't disagree

[equinox-dev] Maven and all that [was: Jetty and commons logging]

2008-01-06 Thread Jeff McAffer
://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html Although this wouldn't be what you'd be doing, I'm fairly certain the process would be similar. Hope this helps all involved... On Jan 6, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jeff McAffer wrote: Hey Alex, Please note that I started my reply by saying I don't disagree. The point

Re: [equinox-dev] Maven and all that [was: Jetty and commons logging]

2008-01-08 Thread Jeff McAffer
by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/08/2008 04:21 AM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject Re: [equinox-dev] Maven and all that [was: Jetty and commons logging] On Jan 7, 2008 10:33 PM, Jeff

Re: [equinox-dev] OBR

2008-01-11 Thread Jeff McAffer
adaptor for p2. Would you agree that the simplest way to do that is probably to write it on top of the OBR API's and the Felix bundle repository implementation? - thomas Jeff McAffer wrote: We currently do host an OBR repo with the major releases. Don't remember the URL but the required

Re: [equinox-dev] Fw: [Bug 214801] [api tools] consider Export-Package as API

2008-01-12 Thread Jeff McAffer
could detect that the API package has changed since last release and needs to be incremented. Does the new API tooling currently do something like this for Bundle-Version? Tom Jeff McAffer ---01/11/2008 02:17:11 PM---Tom raises a good point that we keep letting slide. Are we going to ensure

Re: [equinox-dev] Fw: [Bug 214801] [api tools] consider Export-Package as API

2008-01-17 Thread Jeff McAffer
that the API package has changed since last release and needs to be incremented. Does the new API tooling currently do something like this for Bundle-Version? Tom Jeff McAffer ---01/11/2008 02:17:11 PM---Tom raises a good point that we keep letting slide. Are we going to ensure that all export

[equinox-dev] Tom Watson: Equinox co-lead

2008-01-23 Thread Jeff McAffer
Recently I was reviewing the Equinox project, the direction and the community around it. One of the things that stood out for me is that Tom Watson has been quietly leading vast swaths of the activity in Equinox from the framework and service implementations to the OSGi spec work and areas in

[equinox-dev] [prov] Creating Eclipse Packages

2008-01-24 Thread Jeff McAffer
From Ian in the committer list. There might be some input needed here from p2 if we are going to produce installers etc. Jeff Dear Eclipse Committers We would like to encourage more participation in the creation of the packages created by the Eclipse Packaging Project. The goal is to 1)

[equinox-dev] Movin' on

2008-01-24 Thread Jeff McAffer
In case you do not read my blog or PlanetEclipse... http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/jeff/2008/01/24/movin-on-well-sorta/ One thing to add the message is my new coordinates. My new email address is first name at code9.com (the source of this message). Note also that my bugzilla id will change

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] Download manager support for pack200

2008-01-24 Thread Jeff McAffer
right but there is the practical detail that the exe you need comes with Java 5 or later and the licensing does not likely allow you to ship just the unpack200 exe. But that is a matter for someone's legal team. As John says, the unpack support simply cares whether or not the exe is there.

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] Download manager support for pack200

2008-01-28 Thread Jeff McAffer
dependent (require Java 1.5 or higher) would be ideal here. Those who run lower then Java 5 simply would not have pack200 which is kind of natural isn't it? - thomas Jeff McAffer wrote: right but there is the practical detail that the exe you need comes with Java 5 or later and the licensing

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] support for separated source bundles released

2008-01-30 Thread Jeff McAffer
does this affect PDE at all when targetting something installed using p2? That is, do you still get the source in the IDE ? Jeff Pascal Rapicault wrote: Earlier today I have released support to ensure that the source bundles would not get added to the bundles.txt (and therefore not installed

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] support for separated source bundles released

2008-02-03 Thread Jeff McAffer
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Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] support for separated source bundles released

2008-02-03 Thread Jeff McAffer
somewhere else and give it another name, except merging it with bundles.txt or putting it next to it. PaScaL From: Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Equinox development mailing list equinox- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

[equinox-dev] [prov] EclipseCon installers

2008-02-04 Thread Jeff McAffer
I forgot to ask during the call. Can we have one installer per EPP package? That is, one installer that would work for multiple platforms or do we have to have one installer for per EPP per platform? Jeff ___ equinox-dev mailing list

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] EclipseCon installers

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff McAffer
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[equinox-dev] equinox BoF for EclipseCon

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff McAffer
Tom and I just submitted an Equinox BoF proposal for EclipseCon. https://eclipsecon.greenmeetingsystems.com/submissions/view/579 Hope to see you there. Jeff ___ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org

Re: [equinox-dev] [launcher] Showsplash

2008-02-07 Thread Jeff McAffer
alternatively is it possible to have the installer configure the launcher with the right splash? of course that assumes that the NL is fixed from install time. Just a thought Jeff Andrew Niefer wrote: James, The native code that is showing the early splash screen does not have support to

Re: [equinox-dev] [launcher] Showsplash

2008-02-07 Thread Jeff McAffer
only need one bmp. Inactive hide details for Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/07/2008 07:50 AM Please

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] ECF discovery of artifact and metadata repos

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff McAffer
Unless it has changed since I messed with it, that FileServerApplication was some hacky attempt at putting an HTTP server on front of some repos. It may be an ok starting point but i'd not put too much weight on it. Perhaps we should just have one thing that exposes a set of repos through

Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] ECF discovery of artifact and metadata repos

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff McAffer
of getting this in. Having said that, we can always have another route that is less well integrated and comes from the incubator at the beginning and then gets integrated over time. Jeff Scott Lewis wrote: Hi Jeff, Jeff McAffer wrote: Unless it has changed since I messed

RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] peer-to-peer downloads (ECF)

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff McAffer
Remy, excuse me if this is really basic and naïve. I've only used bittorent to download large single wad files... Would it be reasonable to use bittorent to download *parts* of things? For example, if you look at an entire repo as one file then when you want just one of the artifacts in the

[equinox-dev] the importance of targetting Foundation JREs

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff McAffer
In the past couple days there have been at least three cases of code problems that where either code from J2SE was being used or dependencies were spec'd incorrectly because stuff was coming for free from the JRE. We can avoid these simply by installing and configuring a Foundation 1.1 JRE. See

[equinox-dev] [prov] removing metadata

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff McAffer
What policy should be used when installing IUs that have been removed? Say we have a metadata repo M and some IU A that gets installed into profile P. The agent may cache A in a metadata cache or some such. Then we remove M (or remove A from M). Now there are two choices -- either A is no

RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] removing profile iu properties

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff McAffer
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[equinox-dev] [prov] use of Foundation 1.1

2008-02-19 Thread Jeff McAffer
There are several projects in p2 currently that list J2SE 1.4 and Foundation 1.1 in the BREE for the bundle. This is good but they list them in that order. The net result is that J2SE 1.4 is used to compile the code. What happens in some cases people don't have 1.4 so PDE uses the next best thing

RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] use of Foundation 1.1

2008-02-19 Thread Jeff McAffer
with BREE J2SE 1.4. I think if you simply reorder the BREEs we will get a build failure for bundles needing XML stuff to compile. We would need an XML bundle to be available at build time also. Tom Inactive hide details for Jeff McAffer ---02/19/2008 07:57:02 AM---There are several projects

RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] manifest changes

2008-02-21 Thread Jeff McAffer
Feels like a missing Update classpath or some such. This all works fine for me though I do have foundation 1.1 installed. Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:equinox-dev- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Webb Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:07 PM To:

[equinox-dev] [prov] should p2 be in the RCP sdk

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff McAffer
The RCP downloads from Eclipse have update.configurator in them. This is convenient because that configurator automatically discovers and installs all the bundles so people getting started with RCP do not need to laboriously list out the things they need. It is however unfortunate in the case of

RE: [equinox-dev] Incubator request for Extensions/Services Integration work

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff McAffer
+1 This fits well with investigations we need to do for e4 as well as the SAT work and some discussions with James Branigan from the Jazz team around stuff they have been doing. Need a pithy name for the workarea. component programming model (CPM) perhaps? As Oleg points out, it is

RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] p2 for starters

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff McAffer
This is likely related to ProvisioningHelper which is another interesting utilty class. It would be good to factor things to provide a simple API to much of this function. Helmut, can you synthesize the ProvisioningUtil and ProvisioningHelper classes to make something that you think makes sense?

RE: [equinox-dev] Incubator request for Extensions/Services Integration work

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff McAffer
Integration work +1 from me too, and I would be interested in participating. How does this work? Will initial committers be nominated? Boris On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 This fits well with investigations we need to do for e4

RE: [equinox-dev] p2 metadata generation

2008-04-03 Thread Jeff McAffer
Michael, Plugins == bundles. There is nothing special in the generator that could distinguish between the two ('cause there is no difference). What are you doing that is not working? Jeff From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hampel, Michael Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [equinox-dev] App server classpath

2008-04-03 Thread Jeff McAffer
Hey Emmanuel, Great to see you using Equinox. These kinds of questions are best asked on the Equinox newsgroup http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.technology.equino x There you will find a diverse user community who may have had the same issue and have solutions

RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] Auto installing touchpoint

2008-04-12 Thread Jeff McAffer
We can copy the Apache code and include it in the touchpoint bundle (as one option). Either way, I would suggest contributing the tarball code to the p2 incubator. If someone wants/needs to use it or has some time to do integration then they can do so. Eventually agents should be able to

RE: [equinox-dev] [p2] plug-in versions

2008-04-14 Thread Jeff McAffer
Agreed we can talk about this tomorrow. In the mean time, my 2c is that we call it 1.0. It is a release and we are believing that it is useful/works/. It would be strange IMHO to have the SDK based on something that we don't feel good enough about to call 1.0. As for JSCH, we do not control

RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] Auto installing touchpoint

2008-04-14 Thread Jeff McAffer
] On Behalf Of Jeff McAffer Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:00 PM To: 'Equinox development mailing list' Subject: RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] Auto installing touchpoint I'm not a big incubator kind-a guy so I'll probably wait for the 3.5 stream to open up to work on this. In the meantime I've cloned

RE: [equinox-dev] Equinox IP log

2008-04-18 Thread Jeff McAffer
Thanks John, this is a good start. I wonder if there is something we can harvest from the Orbit IP log structure. DJ? Thoughts? It would be generally useful to have the CQ numbers associated with the third party code. One important not is that I believe we have a policy about protecting

[equinox-dev] RE: [eclipse-dev] Re: Eclipse 3.4 shape

2008-04-26 Thread Jeff McAffer
I think the EPP team is interested in doing this. Do you see any technical reasons why it cannot be done or is this mainly a coordination/timing issue? Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:eclipse-dev- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pascal Rapicault Sent:

RE: [equinox-dev] RE: [eclipse-dev] Re: Eclipse 3.4 shape

2008-04-28 Thread Jeff McAffer
for EPP packages, since this is where bundle pooling across applications really comes into play. Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/26/2008 11:38 AM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To 'General development mailing list

RE: [equinox-dev] Equinox artifacts in Maven2 repository

2008-05-12 Thread Jeff McAffer
Ideally people would not have to copy the repos somewhere else just to get Maven integration. Perhaps someone in the community can provide/point to an update site/p2 adapter for Maven? That way you would just point Maven at the main Eclipse repos (or a mirror). Jeff -Original Message-

RE: [equinox-dev] [p2] Milestone update site for 3.4

2008-05-15 Thread Jeff McAffer
+1 I annotated the bug with more thoughts From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Webb Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:17 PM To: Equinox development mailing list Subject: [equinox-dev] [p2] Milestone update site for 3.4 Apologies for the persistence on this

RE: [equinox-dev] Commit rights for Rafael Chaves have been expired

2008-05-20 Thread Jeff McAffer
to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc Subject [equinox-dev] Commit rights for Rafael Chaves have been expired eclipse.equinox Committers, Jeff McAffer has expired the commit rights for Rafael Chaves (rchaves

RE: [equinox-dev] Is the P2 installer supposed to work?

2008-05-20 Thread Jeff McAffer
Dunno Alex. This works fine for me on windows but I see your point on the Mac. I had a look at the p2installer.ini: -showsplash org.eclipse.platform -vmargs -Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns -XstartOnFirstThread -Xms40m -Xmx256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

RE: [equinox-dev] Is the P2 installer supposed to work?

2008-05-20 Thread Jeff McAffer
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:equinox-dev- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff McAffer Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:18 AM To: 'Equinox development mailing list' Subject: RE: [equinox-dev] Is the P2 installer supposed to work? Dunno Alex. This works fine for me on windows but I see

RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] Discourages access

2008-05-30 Thread Jeff McAffer
It was the joint decision of the team and the PMC that p2 would not have any API. By definition, anything that is not API is marked as x-internal = true. As a result, and by design, you get a warning that you are using something that is not API. I agree that this is annoying however, no one

RE: [equinox-dev] Shared profile registries

2008-05-30 Thread Jeff McAffer
I fyou run the installer in shared mode it uses one profile registry and creates a new profile for every different thing you install. Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:equinox-dev- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Hallgren Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:38 PM

[equinox-dev] feature names

2008-06-11 Thread Jeff McAffer
As discussed in the planning call this morning our feature names are all over the map. Here is a sample of some I see in the current testUpdates repo Eclipse Project Equinox bundle feature Eclipse P2 Developer Resources Equinox bundle source feature Equinox Provisioning Director

RE: [equinox-dev] feature names

2008-06-11 Thread Jeff McAffer
them all to be consistent in 3.5 if we don't do it earlier. Jeff McAffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/11/2008 11:51 AM Please respond to Equinox development mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org To 'Equinox development mailing list' equinox-dev@eclipse.org cc

Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox Aspects: Reworked website, quick-start guide and Hello world! demo

2008-06-13 Thread Jeff McAffer
Heiko, This is great. Thanks. some suggestions - It would be great to have the quick start and demo somewhere in a permanent location on the main page. These items will not be new forever and the what's new section is not where people would look to get started. Perhaps a whole Getting

Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox Aspects: Reworked website, quick-start guide and Hello world! demo

2008-06-14 Thread Jeff McAffer
in incubation? Am 14.06.2008 um 02:58 schrieb Jeff McAffer: On a side note, I'm not 100% but there may be an issue with calling the Aspects stuff 1.* when it is incubation. ___ equinox-dev mailing list equinox-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman

Re: [equinox-dev] Null Pointer Exception in EclipseStarter

2008-06-18 Thread Jeff McAffer
Craig, Thanks for taking the time to report this. Can I ask you to enter a bug report at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/ That helps us track and address these issues. Jeff Craig Phillips wrote: Hi, If someone wants to take a deeper look... Stack trace at bottom of this post...

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