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Best Practice for Target Platform Maintenance [message #1263108]

Tue, 04 March 2014 07:39

Timo Rohrberg

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Registered: September 2011
Location: Karlsruhe

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Hello everybody,

I was thinking and researching already quite a while about a very important question related to the building of large software systems based on the Eclipse Equinox technology: What are the best practices for maintenance of target platforms?

Background: Imagine a large software system being developed and shipped based on the Eclipse Equinox technology and other Eclipse projects. One always needs to set a defined target platform - so far, so good. But how to maintain those target platforms? Should I mirror and archive the used installable units on my own to make sure they still exist in the expected way when the referred Eclipse projects move on but an older version of my software system needs to be maintained? Or should I refer to the official p2 repositories instead?

If mirroring, what's the best approach for it? Downloading and keeping the artifacts under version control referring to directories of contents within my target definitions? Hosting own local p2 repositories within my development team? But then, how to create those p2 repositories? Download them directly, use the Features and Bundles Publisher, or even the Tycho mirror goal?

I would be very interested in your comments and suggestions. How do you guys maintain your target platforms? What are your experiences and are there any best practices you are aware of?

Thanks a lot for your responses...

Cheers
Timo

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Re: Best Practice for Target Platform Maintenance [message #1387526 is a reply to message #1263108]

Wed, 25 June 2014 07:58

Boris Brodski

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Registered: July 2009

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Hello Timo,

I would manage two p2 repositories

- Mirror of all external (public) artifacts needed for my builds/target platforms/eclipse Oomph-installations
- p2 repository with all my own artifacts (ever built by me)

I don't think, you need some kind of version control on this, since you will (or at least should) never have different artifacts with a same version.

How to create local p2 mirror of public artifacts, that doesn't contains tons of old and unneeded stuff I asked here: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/782059/

Cheers,
Boris

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