Bug 330579 - [director] Allow for incomplete version numbers to be specified on the command line
Summary: [director] Allow for incomplete version numbers to be specified on the comman...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Equinox
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: p2 (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: P2 Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2010-11-18 10:40 EST by Jacek Pospychala CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 16:18 EDT (History)
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Description Jacek Pospychala CLA 2010-11-18 10:40:02 EST 
I'm trying this on top of Eclipse 3.6.0:

Fails:
eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios -installIU org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.feature.feature.group/1.2.2

Succeeds:
eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios -installIU  org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.feature.feature.group/1.2.2.v201008170101-7C78FGMF9JgLWLMUUEMtXc

I only want to install JSDT 1.2.2, instead of 1.2.0, but it's not easy without knowing exact qualifier number.
it'd be utterly cool to get rid of qualifiers, and just use 3-part version numbers.
Comment 1 Ian Bull CLA 2010-11-18 12:10:44 EST 
I don't think 'get rid of qualifiers' is the answer, as there are times when we need to install a specific version.  But the idea of using a 3 part (or even a 2 or 1 part version), and the director automatically choosing the latest version that matches that partial version, is interesting.

I could then install org.eclipse.sdk.ide 3.6, and it would take the latest 3.6. version from the consulted repos.
Comment 2 Jacek Pospychala CLA 2010-11-19 02:04:40 EST 
yes, that's exactly what I meant. sorry if it sounded  I don't want qualifiers at all...
Comment 3 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2010-11-20 13:42:42 EST 
This is a cool idea and good step toward improved usability. If you want to look into it, the code is in DIrectorApplication#collectRoots (in bundle org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director.app).
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:18:06 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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