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Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Re: EclipseCon memory stick and Ganymede M5
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I think Martins suggestion, using the Java IDE and a Ganymede update
site is the right way to go. Much less redundancy and still very easy to
use.
A .pack.gz variant of Ganymede will be less then half the size. My guess
would be between 150 and 200MB in that shape. That's < 450MB total.
Plenty of room for JVM's, etc.
I think the advantage having it run on a 1.4 JVM is minimal. Who uses
that on a laptop today? And if someone indeed would do that, they can
still install over the net right?
- thomas
Martin Oberhuber wrote:
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,