Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Re: Ec

[Martin Oberhuber <martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is EclipseCon really the right place to promote EPP packages on the stick?
Some facts:

* An EPP Package can also be downloaded fairly easily because it's a 
single download. Using the update site, however, is painful.
* I thought that EclipseCon is for showing the breadth of the Ecosystem, 
and allow people try out something they haven't tried before.
* You argue yourself that you expect most attendees to already have a 
JVM and "some" version of Eclipse on their Laptops. Wouldn't they be 
more interested in getting broad exposure to lots of projects, rather 
than just another version of the base Platform?
* Looking at disk space, it appears we have 840 MB available.
  - As of today, Ganymede/staging/plugins is 540 MB -- jars only no 
.pack.gz at all.
  - Ganymede/staging/features is 9MB
  - Base Eclipse is 78MB per Platform if we have them start with Java 
IDE (including XML Edit, Mylyn to promote these)
 ==> should allow for 78 x 3 = 250 + 540 + 9 = 800 MB giving all 3 
win32, linux32, MacOS plus some slack space.

Sounds a lot more compelling for me than duplication of various variants 
of EPP packages...

Also note that the .jar only ganymede site would work with 1.4 JVMs.
If we decided to ship 1.5 or 1.6 JVM's we could ship a .pack.gz variant 
instead, so that should also fit...

Cheers,

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Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm