Re: [ide-dev] A "releases/latest" URL in the IDE to ease upgrades?

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On 04/12/2015 12:04, Carsten Reckord wrote:
> I agree completely. But breaking users' installations, or presenting 
> them with a complex remediation "solution" might not be the most 
> helpful way ;) Also keep in mind that when an upgrade causes problems 
> due to 3rd-party plugins messing it up, this probably won't fall back 
> on the 3rd-party plugin, but on Eclipse, which is after all 
> suggesting/performing the upgrade.
I do not find the P2 remediation helpful. It takes forever, even when 
the problem is just 'already installed' (Bug exists).

Whenever P2 gives me an error, I cancel immediately since for me the 
fall-back bad dependency trace contains an accurate albeit obfuscated 
description of the problem. In comparison when I have left it to the 
remediation, the remediation has, I think, never been helpful to me. 
I've even raised a bug because I couldn't understnad waht was on offer.

Sorry but that's the way it is, and I don't think we can offer it to users.

    Regards

        Ed Willink