Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Equinox fix for Luna SR1 now available as

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 Oct 2014, at 19:56, David M Williams wrote:

> I am not sure if this bug was discussed directly on this list, or, 
> just
> some of its predecessors, but, we have an "official fix" available for
> anyone impacted by

Really appreciate the work for fixing this nasty subtle bug.

But can we have a chat about why the Eclipse release train does not seem 
to have a *good* way to release updates for this ?

By "Good" I mean one that just gets available via Check For Updates 
rather that one that does not require users to aware of having to 
install a specific feature patch ?

I think Eclipse survived this far because we haven't really had any big 
"all impacting stop ship bugs", but lately they are starting to crop up 
- this issue with System properties being the worst one (that I know 
of).

Can someone remind me why we can't in these cases do an update that 
fixes this bug ? Is it technical because the release train is to hardly 
coupled and we have feature's using exact versions and that p2 won't let 
you update the plugins on their own ?

...or is there also some political agenda on how we provide these 
updates ?

In any case - I think it would be worth finding a way to update these 
technical and political limitations to make it easier to do timely 
stop-ship bug updates?

wdyt ?

/max
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