Scott Lewis wrote:
Aren't
there other ways of dealing with the 'not enough space on the memory
stick' issue? (e.g. having different memory sticks for different
platforms)
There are cost and operational issues involved in having multiple
memory sticks. We'd have to make N orders instead of one and pay N set
up charges and we wouldn't get the same bulk pricing (because we were
ordering X blue ones for Win32 and Y green ones for Linux and Z silver
ones for OSX, etc.). Plus there are the operational issues of making
sure that people picked up the right keys at registration, that the
auto-updater stations copied the right files onto the different
versions, etc. It's a good idea, but we would have had to plan ahead
for this months ago - by now it's too late (for example, we've already
put in the order to purchase the USB memory sticks).
And
if the EF is basically becoming focused/promoting distributing Eclipse
through EPP packages, then what is Ganymede for?
The goal of the annual simultaneous release has always been to provide
a stable set of platforms and frameworks for the commercial adopters to
build their tools on top of. The user community never really understood
that and has decided that the annual release is a "product" or "distro"
of Eclipse. Because the annual release is not a distro and will never
be (because of the lack of integration testing, etc), we needed a way
to build distros for the user community. The EPP packages are that
mechanism. Thus we have:
* Annual simultaneous release: for adopters
* EPP packages: for users
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