| Re: [orbit-dev] Orbit R20191115185527 |
On Sun, 2019-11-24 at 14:31 +0000, Mat Booth wrote: > > May be I do not understand what the R20191115185527 is. > > > > Please advice. > > > > If you inspect the S20191118194249 repository: > > https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/S20191118194249/repository/ > > You will find it is a composite repo of these TWO repositories: > > * https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/R20191115185527/repository/plugins/ > * https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops2/S20191118194249/repository/plugins/ > > This is because when Orbit switched from the old CVS system to the new Orbit Recipes system, not all bundles from the old CVS-based system were re-implemented as Orbit Recipes. So we have a composite repository of the "last good" CVS-based repo and the latest Orbit Recipes generated repo. > > The "last good" CVS-based repo has a recent date because occasionally changes are made to it (e.g.: removing bundles for which updates were contributed as an Orbit Recipe, or re-signing bundles whose certificates have expired.) > > I hope this answers your question. Maybe we can consider placing those updated repos on a separate folder with 'internal' prefixed to make it clear it's not meant for consumption. With that said, none of those 'old' R repos are actually displayed on the downloads page itself. We also declare the milestone builds on this list along with the releases. -- Roland Grunberg