Re: [wtp-incubator-dev] WTP Update Site for Milestones/Incubator

[Gabriel Petrovay <gabipetrovay@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dave,

So WTP has the following 2 update sites:
Webtools - http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/
Webtools Milestones - http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/milestones/


Taking as an example XSL Tools:
On the Webtools update site: version 1.0.2
On the Milestones update site: version 1.1.0

So if somebody installs XSLT from the milestone update site (currently version 1.1.0), he has to go forever with that update site because during the update the same site will be used. So this will work well for internal people, early adopters, beta testers, etc. So updating will always bring the latest milestone release. As I understand this there is 1 milestone release every 6 weeks. (Correct me if I am wrong.)

For people that want only major stable releases, they will stick to the main Webtools update site. So they are getting now version 1.0.2. Any update will not bring new versions until the next WTP release. As I understand, there is 1 major release every year snchronized with the Main Eclipse releases. (Correct me if I am wrong.)

In both cases, how does the patching work?
a) for stable release (for sure we find bugs in a one-year timeframe),
b) for milestone release (some "premium customers" :) that report bugs would like to have something to play with sooner than 6 weeks. A timeframe of 2 weeks sounds resonable for milestone patch releases). This milestone patching is important until the code stabilizes because currently we expect the code to changes very quickly.



And the last question: how are the milestone builds/patches uploaded on the update site servers?

Thanks,
Gabriel

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:18 AM, David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

/webtools/milestones ... for those that ask.




From:
David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
WTP Incubator Dev list <wtp-incubator-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
10/21/2009 08:48 PM
Subject:
[wtp-incubator-dev] WTP Update Site for Milestones/Incubator
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David,

Thought I'd ask this here since it came up in the XQDT weekly meeting,
but is there an update site for Milestones or for the Incubator in
general?   Or is there only the ZIP downloads.     The XQDT team is in
the stages of planning, and would like to be able to have their
milestones when they start producing them available for install from an
P2 update site.

I have some minor work yet to do to get everything in place for the
offical WTP builds, but thought I'd ask about this here so we get an
official answer.

Thanks.

Dave


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