RE: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Nov 12, 2003

[Dorian Birsan <birsan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/12/2003
01:00:41 PM:

> 
> > Discussion Topics:
> > 
> > >- Using features to provide finer grain upgrade paths for
selected
> > >components of the SDK? For example, it could make sense to
> > have CVS as a 
> > >separate feature and allow us to release upgrades, major
bug fixes, 
> > >outside the SDK release schedule. Comments?
> 
> This looks like a good idea, but pretty much assumes that Update Manager
has
> a command-line version or that we use something like Maven or Debian's
APT
> system for managing versioning and dependencies.

Why would this need a command-line update utility
for this? In fact, I would argue
that one should use the automatic updates scheduler
(in M3) to periodically be notified
about available updates.
Currently the problem is more about the way nested
feature updates work (or rather don't :-)
but there is some investigation work on making patches
easier to create and install.

> 
> I haven't looked at Update Manager in awhile; does anyone know if
it can run
> headless from the command line?

Yes, take a look at
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update-home/doc/working/documentation/standalone_update.html

> 
> A lot of other Java-based open-source projects are starting to use
Maven for
> this; have we looked at it?
> 
> 
> Dave
> _______________________________________________

-Dorian