[buckminster-dev] Re: dynamic update side based on buckminster model

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> >  You've mentioned in Orbit's news group that Buckminster can 
> > potentially be used to build an extension to update manager in order 
> > to materialized plugins from external sources (e.g. maven 
> > repositories at ibiblio or apache).
> >
> >  Is it something that could happens or was just crazy idea that won't 
> > be implemented?
> It's definitely feasible and also something that I think Buckminster 
> should include.
> >  I am just looking to some simple way to make 3rd party jars 
> > available to some technology projects hosted at Eclipse and make 
> > possible for them to provide some update mechanisms for the end users.
> I can't give you any promises about when we can include this feature. 
> One thing that could speed things up a bit is if we could muster more 
> resources into the Buckminster project. I promise to do my best go 
> guide you (or anyone else who'd like to contribute) along should you 
> have a go at implementing this.
 Currently I can only commit to help testing this and share some basic 
requirements. Unfortunately won't have time to do any development work.

 regards,
 Eugene