[epsilon-dev] Update site now includes all dependencies!

[Sina Madani <sinadoom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

 

I’ve recently been spending a lot of time to get the update site in good shape – specifically, to resolve dependencies without the user having to manually add repositories or install them. After a lot of headscratching and scouring mailing lists, forums and Bugzilla, the solution was actually relatively simple. https://download.eclipse.org/epsilon/interim/ is now a P2 repository, built using the eclipse-repository Tycho packaging in org.eclipse.epsilon.updatesite.interim’s pom.xml. So, we don’t need to ask users to add update sites to their list.

I propose that we update the website to remove links to dependencies to simplify maintenance and keeping things up to date.

There are now “only” two places we need to declare external dependencies: in the target platform and in epsilonUse.setup.

 

Thanks,

Sina