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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Equinox fix for Luna SR1 now available as a feature patch in "4.4" repository.
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This is related to the discussion about a year or so ago about having more
frequent or even continuous updates to the composite repo. That didn't go
anywhere, unfortunately.
- Konstantin
-----Original Message-----
From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas
Hallgren
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 5:02 AM
To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Equinox fix for Luna SR1 now
available as a feature patch in "4.4" repository.
+1
I would really like to see p2 leveraged (the way it was designed to) to make
it really easy to push fixes like this out to the community in a controlled
but swift manner.
- thomas
On 2014-11-02 11:07, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2014, at 19:56, David M Williams wrote:
>
>> I am not sure if this bug was discussed directly on this list, or,
>> just some of its predecessors, but, we have an "official fix"
>> available for anyone impacted by
>
> Really appreciate the work for fixing this nasty subtle bug.
>
> But can we have a chat about why the Eclipse release train does not
> seem to have a *good* way to release updates for this ?
>
> By "Good" I mean one that just gets available via Check For Updates
> rather that one that does not require users to aware of having to install
a specific feature patch ?
>
> I think Eclipse survived this far because we haven't really had any
> big "all impacting stop ship bugs", but lately they are starting to crop
up - this issue with System properties being the worst one (that I know of).
>
> Can someone remind me why we can't in these cases do an update that
> fixes this bug ? Is it technical because the release train is to
> hardly coupled and we have feature's using exact versions and that p2
won't let you update the plugins on their own ?
>
> ...or is there also some political agenda on how we provide these updates
?
>
> In any case - I think it would be worth finding a way to update these
> technical and political limitations to make it easier to do timely
stop-ship bug updates?
>
> wdyt ?
>
> /max
> http://about.me/maxandersen
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