| Re: [epp-dev] Does SimRel need to include EPP site (circular dependency)? |
I can only recommend we do the least disruptive thing possible. Firstly because in these corona times, it seems involvement is lower than normal. And secondly because when ship a next release we want people to be able to update to it, so the question of whether EPP's sites will be found by existing 2020-12 installations is relevant. These installations point at https://download.eclipse.org/releases/latest which should therefore continue to compose the EPP updates.
So again, I can only recommend caution and consideration before
we redesign the whole system on whims and assumptions.
> I thought Jonah was solving this problem and already has a "fix" for it?
I think he's solving 1 instance of this problem, but not the whole class. And the fix has some drawbacks (eg more p2 repositories necessary to install certain packages).
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:58 PM Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The whole community currently uses things like https://download.eclipse.org/releases/latest/ for one stop shopping for updates. Surely changing that is not a good solution to an internal/interim releng issue.
The repo would still be present in EPP, it's just that this wouldn't contain the EPP artifacts anymore which would be in a separate repository (eg https://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/latest/ ) enabled in EPP by default. So Check for Updates from EPP packages would still work and EPP could more easily include non-SimRel-repo artifacts like JustJ.