Re: [babel-dev] Build process, p2 metadata

[Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabe O'Brien wrote:
> Team,
>
> 1)  +1 for pulling the update site from the download page and 
> replacing it with a brief explanation of the issues we are having 
> (maybe pointing to bug #274025).
Agreed.  I'll do just that.
> 3)  I would be willing to try to apply the patch from bug #274025 to 
> Eclipse.  If anyone knows of a good tutorial or wiki page that details 
> any of the steps in the process of compiling Eclipse that would be 
> great help.
We'd likely just need to recompile that specific class and re-jar that 
plugin.  Sounds like a fun experiment.

> I am also very interested in the steps to deploy the language packs as 
> I am starting to look into this very issue for the EPP team.  Would it 
> be possible to develop a common deploy script (I know this is out side 
> of the scope of Babel)?
I'm not sure I understand 'deploy the language packs' ..  You mean just 
unzipping them in the dropins folder?

D.


> Thanks,
> gO'
>
> Denis Roy wrote:
> > Team,
> >
> > The 'new' build system has been working good for a couple of weeks 
> > now, and you can see/test the nightly (N2009...) and weekly (I2009) 
> > builds from the build server 
> > <http://build.eclipse.org/technology/babel/>.  I'll be writing a 
> > quick promote script so that we can update our real downloads site.  
> > The last release build was done over a month ago.
> >
> > Because of https://bugs.eclipse.org/274025, we still do not have any 
> > p2 metadata, and I believe this is problematic.  From here, I can 
> > think of a few options:
> >
> > 1. Effective immediately, we should perhaps remove the Update Site 
> > URLs from our Babel download page 
> > <http://www.eclipse.org/babel/downloads.php>, and only link to the 
> > ZIPs instead, since installing the ZIP files seems to work (whereas 
> > p2 complains of missing dependencies if using the update site).  
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > 2. Our update site has 942 features and 42,000+ plugins.  Perhaps 
> > this is not optimal.  Thoughts?
> >
> > 3. Sean submitted a patch to bug 274025, but that code will not make 
> > it into Eclipse 3.5.  I am open to running a patched version of 
> > Eclipse to build the metadata, if someone can produce it.
> >
> >
> > I'll keep you informed on the promote script.
> >
> > Denis
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