Re: [imp-dev] Branching in SVN to move forward with new API

[Jurgen Vinju <jurgen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah. just came back from concert in Paradiso. Nice.

Ok. I'm all for the plan.

Cheers,

Jurgen

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Robert M. Fuhrer
<rfuhrer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Guess you're tired. ;-)
> The idea is to put the 0.2 stuff on a *separate* update site (i.e. a
> somewhat different URL but still at eclipse.org), so existing users'
> installations won't even see the new stuff. Unless, that is, they explicitly
> add that new site to their configuration, which would be inadvisable of
> course.
> On Apr 12, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Jurgen Vinju wrote:
>
> Good plan. We're not putting 0.2 stuff on the update site I presume?
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Robert M. Fuhrer
> <rfuhrer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to branch the repository for a 0.2.* line of work that will be API
>
> incompatible with 0.1.*. Once the branch is in place, I'd like to host
>
> builds of the 0.2 branch in a separate part of the IMP update site, say,
>
> http://download.eclipse.org/technology/imp/updates/0.2.
>
> This way, we can maintain compatibility with current users of the 0.1 line,
>
> while freeing ourselves to make breaking API changes. By hosting 0.2 builds
>
> in a separate spot, users won't need to worry about picking up incompatible
>
> code. In particular, as long as no one mixes code from the two sites, we
>
> don't need to worry that existing feature/plugin dependency constraints
>
> would accept the newer 0.2 features/plugins.
>
> Comments?
>
> --
> Cheers,
>   - Bob
> -------------------------------------------------
> Robert M. Fuhrer
> Research Staff Member
> Programming Technologies Dept.
> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
> IMP Project Lead (http://www.eclipse.org/imp)
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