Re: [epp-dev] EPP Wizard Project

[Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For better experience at downloading, please make sure that the org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient* bundles (and dependencies) are included in the installer.
You may also have to include some platform specific org.eclipse.core.net* bundles to deal with ppl behind proxies.
HTH
PaScaL

"Gabe O'Brien" ---03/12/2009 02:19:25 PM---Markus, I had a feeling the P2 installer was that smart, thanks for

From:	"Gabe O'Brien" <gabe.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	Eclipse Packaging Project <epp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	03/12/2009 02:19 PM
Subject:	Re: [epp-dev] EPP Wizard Project

---

Markus,

    I had a feeling the P2 installer was that smart, thanks for 
confirming it!

gO'

Markus Knauer wrote:
> Hi Gabe, that sounds great.
>
> The installer.properties file contains only the places from 
> eclipse.org <http://eclipse.org>, but the installer is smart enough to 
> use the Eclipse mirror servers if the p2 artifact repositories are 
> listing them in a correct way. E.g. if you are looking into the 
> Ganymede artifact.jar 
> (http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede/artifacts.jar), you 
> will find a line such as this one
>
>   <property
>     name='p2.mirrorsURL'
>     
> value='http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/releases/ganymede/&amp;format=xml&amp;protocol=http'/ 
> <http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/releases/ganymede/&amp;format=xml&amp;protocol=http%27/>>
>
> which points to the mirrors. If you are using Linux, you could use 
> netstat, iptraf, etc. tools to watch the outgoing TCP connections.
>
> Markus
>
>
>
> 2009/3/12 Gabe O'Brien <gabe.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:gabe.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
>     Markus,
>
>      I was able to run the wizard, select some packages, download the
>     installer and run it.  I ran the installer, but it took a long
>     long time to run and I had to stop it (I had to go home).  I will
>     try running the installer again and see if it will finish up
>     today. Sometimes in the late afternoon our bandwidth at the office
>     seems to drop to a trickle.
>
>      One thing I noticed looking at the 'installer.properties' file is
>     it only lists eclipse.org <http://eclipse.org> as the source for
>     packages.  Is the P2 installer smart enough to pull from our
>     mirror sites?  If not we might need to add a step to the Wizard to
>     select mirrors, otherwise when we launch the Wizard we are going
>     to kill the eclipse.org <http://eclipse.org> site.
>
>     gO'
>
>     Markus Knauer wrote:
>
>         Hi Gabe,
>
>         this is very good news!
>
>         I went over the list of open bugs of the EPP wizard and
>         thought that we can update and close most of them. With the
>         exception of bug 247613
>         <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=247613>
>         (feedback form) and 248569
>         <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=248569> (EPP
>         UDC for the Wizard) they could be closed. I will check today
>         and update the bugs.
>
>
>         You wrote that you are now able to run the wizard? Does that
>         include creating the installer, downloading it and using the
>         installer to create a custom Eclipse on your disk?
>
>         Regards, Markus
>
>
>
>         2009/3/12 Gabe O'Brien <gabe.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx
>         <mailto:gabe.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>         <mailto:gabe.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx
>         <mailto:gabe.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>>>
>
>
>            Hello EPP Developers,
>
>             I just wanted say hello to everyone on this list, as I
>         have been
>            asked to contribute to the ongoing EPP Wizard project.  The
>         first
>            thing I have been working on is reading (and updating) the WIKI
>            pages for the EPP Wizard.
>
>            http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Wizard
>
>             Mostly I have been working on going over the docs on how
>         to setup
>            a development environment for working on the EPP Wizard.
>         With some
>            help from Markus I now have a working version of the EPP Wizard
>            running on my development machine!
>             I guess it is now time to start reading the open bugs to
>         see what
>            needs fixing.
>
>            Gabe O'Brien
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