Some potential items of discussion for
ramp down call, if there is room on the agenda:
1. Consistent features installed?
2. How to handle capabilities in EPP
Packages?
1. Are all your features being installed
as you expect them in all installation scenarios?
There's a change in behavior in "Software
Updates" when using P2, instead of Update Manager.
See bug 231453 for some details and
discussion.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=231453
This impacts us in WTP, and we need
to improve the way our feature dependancies are defined (basically to remove
all plugin dependancies and use feature dependancies instead).
This is critical for "patch maintenance"
to work, since for this release, that will be feature based.
Plus, it's critical to get all our documentation
installed, since that's only specified in features, not plugin dependancies.
Maybe others do not have this problem
... but, wanted to ask ... and give some warning this will be cause some
"late"changes in WTP .. which hopefully will be transparent ...
but, not sure.
So, from what I know, there's three
ways of installing "stuff" and I'm wondering if we are (or if
we should check?) that each results in consistent features being installed:
unzip
EPP packages?
installation
from "Software Updates"?
installation
based on just "unzipping" a collection of zip files?
2. I know of one possible discrepancy
... I think the Modeling Package includes Eclipse SDK _feature_ so it get's
Capabilities preference page.
How do others do this?
We in WTP have not solved that yet ...
and, I'm still wondering what the best solution is? (We do not want to
include "SDK" just for one preference page!).
See bug 130502 for the long history
and discussion of this issue which has existed for years ...
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=130502 ... and re-reading it now, I see it
concludes with
<quote>
since we are assuming that EPP will do something here,
would it be reasonable
to reassign this bug to them? Or perhaps we should open a new one
and
reference this one... Tod? David? someone want to carry
that torch? </quote>
So .. I've opened bug 235039
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=235039