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Re: [epsilon-dev] Update site now includes all dependencies!
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Hi Sina,
Thanks for all the effort you've put into this! With a self-contained
update site, and an Oomph setup in the Eclipse installer, I see no
reason to keep producing pre-bundled distributions for every new
release, which is fantastic!
I agree that we should now be able to simplify the downloads page
(i.e. remove the distributions tab and clean up the update sites tab)
once 2.0 is out. In preparation for this it would be useful to write
an article explaining how to install 1.x (i.e. mentioning the
expectation to start with a modelling distribution, the GMF/QVTo
dependencies and linking to the ready-to-use distributions) and link
to it from the download page for any users that still need to work
with 1.x.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 17:28, Sina Madani <sinadoom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> 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.
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> I propose that we update the website to remove links to dependencies to simplify maintenance and keeping things up to date.
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> There are now “only” two places we need to declare external dependencies: in the target platform and in epsilonUse.setup.
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> Thanks,
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> Sina
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