[cross-project-issues-dev] Fw: About the update site URL for dtp 1.7.0

[brian.fitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi all...

We have a weird, next-to-impossible
update site issue that we've been trying to track down since our 1.6.2
(Eclipse Ganymede SR2) release went out in February. Intermittently we're
having people report issues updating to 1.6.2 and installing other projects.

Xiaoying, who's been helping us out
with our builds for the last couple of releases, is proposing that perhaps
this is due to the fact that we have one update site for all of DTP. Some
teams seem to provide separate update sites for each release, while others
don't.

The biggest concern with splitting out
the DTP update site on a per-release basis from a PMC perspective is that
users would have to know which update site to use. And if a user is updating
from 3.4 to 3.5 (DTP 1.6.x to 1.7), how do they know that they need a separate
URL for the new update site? This seems like a big risk.

How are other projects handling the
whole update site issue? And has anyone else seen issues with mix/match
update sites?

Thanks in advance!
--Fitz

Brian Fitzpatrick
Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
Eclipse Data Tools Platform Connectivity Team Lead
Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.

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Fitzpatrick/SYBASE on 05/26/2009 01:50 PM -----

"Xiaoying Gu" <xgu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

05/26/2009 03:15 AM

To	<brian.fitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linda Chan" <LChan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
cc
Subject	About the update site URL for dtp 1.7.0

Hi All,
 
Current, the update site URL for DTP
release is http://download.eclipse.org/datatools/updates

In the past releases, we will copy
the release update site jars to this URL after release build is announced,
and append the new release to the site.xml.
And this URL is listed as default URL
once datatools is installed.
 
This will cause one issue:
After 1.7.0 is released, Ganymede users
will find datatools 1.7.0 updates when they use software updates. So DTP
1.7.x might be mixed up with platform 3.4, BIRT 2.3, dtp 1.6.x after installation
from update site. Would this be a potential issue?
 
 
Other teams use a separate update site
for each release, like http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.4
and http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5
Do we need to makes changes for 1.7.0 release?
 
 
 
Thanks,
Xiaoying