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Re: [p2-dev] Proposal: Simplified installer/updater.

Hi Henrik,

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Henrik Lindberg <henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
kudos to the initiative!

I think there needs to be something that describes a policy for how the "install" should be performed. I think the biggest problem is designing these to capture the typical use cases. I am thinking of :
The two extremes are
- just give me bug fixes (conservative, change as little as possible)
- give me the latest of everything including platform

There is probably at least one intermediate level where user wants to stay on same platform (e.g. 3.6) but then wants the latest of everything else.
It is not always possible to control this by presenting a limited set of repositories.

Right.  If I wanted to design an RCP app for these use-cases, I would use the second API and explicitly pass the IUs I want to update into the installer.

If you wanted to be more automatic than that, how would you want to represent this?  Pass a p2ql query into the installer that would be used to select what you want?


Regards,

Dave Orme


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