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Re: [orbit-dev] Predictable Simrel Updatesite
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On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 12:22 +0100, Dietrich, Christian wrote:
> Hello Orbit Devs,
>
> For Eclipse Itself there is http://download.eclipse.org/releases/2019-03
> it is populated with the Milestones and later with the release.
> Is there any reason something like this does not exist for orbit.
> this would prevent clients from having to update to S and R releases
> that are declared to be used for milestones and releases.
We currently have something similar with latest-I [1] (also for S, and
R). However, I'm guessing you want something to set once in the target
platform, and leave there right through to the final release.
In the past, the argument against this was that the underlying content
of such repositories can change and sometimes this might cause issues.
If maintainers aren't explicit in which dependencies they need (eg.
0.0.0) they can end up silently using a 3rd party library they didn't
want, with no uses-CQ having been filed. At the end of the day, people
can always choose which approach suits them best.
What are people's thoughts on this ? I could certainly see it making
life easier for all projects to synchronize on the Orbit release,
especially in cases when we come in late (eg. needing an RC2) so I'd be
inclined to create such stable URLs.
Cheers,
--
Roland Grunberg
https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/latest-I/
