[news.eclipse.tools.buckminster] Re: Build fails after headless resolve

[shendric@xxxxxxx (Scott Hendrickson)]

This is great. Thank you Thomas for hanging in there while I tried to 
articulate what the problem was and for getting a fix in :) The result is 
perfectly suitable for me.
-- Scott

Thomas Hallgren wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> We dropped the support for building legacy update sites in our Galileo 
release. The rationale for this was that legacy 
> sites were no longer provided with Galileo and even with Ganymede, P2 was 
available. Only users on 3.3 or older are 
> confined to use legacy update sites and our Ganymede release was still there 
if you wanted to do that.

> I can see how that was a bad decision. P2 wasn't very mature in Ganymede so 
a lot of users still use the legacy UM. We 
> don't want to force users like yourself to use our old Ganymede release to 
accommodate that. I therefore reinstated the 
> support for legacy update sites. The task names are slightly different 
('create.legacy.site' instead of 'create.site'). See:

>    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287146

> I tested your build.xml and it seems to run just fine after changing the 
task names.

> I'm uploading updated bundles to our update sites right now. They will be 
available in an hour or so.

> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren