Re: [p2-dev] Sharing Your Shared Install Issues

[Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm chiming in a bit late here, but I see that there is no mention of
Bug 332158 [1].  This bug affects many of my users and is a constant
cause of confusion for them.  Our product ships with a feature patch
(for JDT).  If a user happens to have unzipped Eclipse into a
read-only directory, the install fails and the error message is not
informative to the user.  Is this bug the kind of thing that you are
looking to fix?

I added this bug as blocking Bug 358471 [2], but feel free to make a
change if I've been too presumptuous here.

thanks,
Andrew

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=332158
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=358471

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:00 AM, DJ Houghton <DJ_Houghton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As Pascal previously mentioned, we would like to improve the p2 Shared
> Install experience in the Juno release. Currently we are gathering a list of
> issues to try and help prioritize things. Considering the limited resources
> we have, we will not be able to solve all the problems without the help of
> the community and we would like to work through the biggest blockers and
> pain points. Without help from the community we will not make progress.
>
> I've created Bug 358471 [1] as an umbrella bug report to cover the plan item
> and added other bugs to its dependency list. I've also started a wiki page
> [2] to capture some of the problems we are facing. If you have issues with
> the Shared Install scenario, then please add them to the list so we can
> begin discussions.
>
> Just to be clear we are not only looking for bugs, but constructive
> discussion about how to fix problems, background surrounding shared install
> setups (what's rpm? ;-), and for people to say "this problem is important to
> me and I'd like to help out, what can I do?".
>
> As for discussions, if you want to talk about a particularly focused problem
> then the bug report is most likely the best medium. More general discussions
> can be directed to the p2 mailing list, along with notes being put on the
> wiki page. Also note that some members of the p2 and Equinox teams hang out
> on the equinox-dev IRC channel [3] if you have a quick question. We do
> encourage most discussion to happen in bug reports though, as it captures it
> for everyone to see and reference later.
>
> I'm looking forward to hearing about your ideas and finding solutions to
> your problems.
>
> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/358471
> [2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Shared_Install
> [3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/IRC
>
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