[equinox-dev] [prov] Heads up on repository changes, test build

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a heads up: some changes were released
this week that change the metadata and artifact repository formats (compressing
xml files). The change is backwards compatible - new builds will be able
to read old uncompressed repositories. However, this change is not forwards-compatible
for old clients.  Older builds of p2 will not be able to read repositories
in the new format. When interacting with repositories produced from now
on, you need to be using the latest and greatest p2.

To facilitate testing of this, and because
we haven't had a working p2 build since M4, we're going to spin a test
build from the latest p2 code in HEAD. Details to follow when the build
is available.


The map file has been updated for the
following Bug changes:
+ Bug 212058. [prov] Lazily populate
install registry (FIXED)
+ Bug 212295. [prov] [ui] available
updates still showing multiple versions of same IU (FIXED)
+ Bug 214704. [prov] Consistency of
repository index compression (FIXED)
+ Bug 214777. [prov] Provisioned
SDK will not start

The following projects have changed:
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.artifact.repository
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.generator
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.admin
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository