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Re: [phoenix-dev] Re: First steps towards a better eclipse.org website
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Excellent point, Ian.
Karl
Ian Bull wrote:
There is a recent discussion of the installer on the Eclipse-dev list,
and I was thinking maybe we can use p2 to help with the complexity of
our website. This thread started because: "there are 10's of projects
and 100's of download options at eclipse".
I wonder if a standard installer can help here. I know the current
installer is just meant to get a particular version of the Eclipse
SDK, but now with p2, it should be possible to have a 1 download
solution for everything at Eclipse.
The download would be an installer, configured with a "standard tab"
and "advanced tab". The standard tab would have the different EPP
versions: 1 big button to get C/C++, J2EE, Modeling, Run-Time, etc...
On the "advanced tab", a user can pick and choose the exact packages
they want (and p2 can sort out the dependencies).
I am posting this here (instead of eclipse-dev) as I don't want to
derail the discussion around the shape of 3.4, and this is *not*
something to consider for 3.4. But in the long term, if we re-think
the way we ship Eclipse it may make our website easier to navigate.
Just an idea.
Ian
Bjorn Freeman-Benson wrote:
Ian,
First, I just wanted to have parallel wording between the "users" and
"adopters" - I (personally) think we don't give adopters enough
credit at Eclipse. Hence my desire to see a parallel construct.
Second, there's a different between "an information source" and "make
it easy". Make it easy implies a more proactive approach: we could
provide tools for projects that help the projects make it easier for
adopters (e.g. a way for adopters to register the APIs that they use
so that the projects know which are the most important APIs), things
that aren't just "information"... Anyway, that's my thought.
- Bjorn
I was thinking my second bullet would cover this point. The goal
being to be an information source for anyone to use and adopt
Eclipse technology. Or do you think it is sufficiently different
to make them separate?
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