[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Upgrading from ganymede to galileo

["Walter Harley" <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Eric Rizzo" <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> On 4/7/2009 1:28 AM, Walter Harley wrote:
>> Hmm, Eric, I'm not sure about that.  In the past, the Eclipse update
>> mechanism has only allowed updating service versions (e.g., 3.4.0 to 
>> 3.4.1),
>> not minor versions (3.4 to 3.5).  That's in part because there are so 
>> many
>> plug-ins that use non-API methods and are thus not compatible with the
>> upgraded Eclipse, and in part because the update mechanism itself has had
>> significant changes.  Is that going to be different in Galileo?
>
> One of the motivations behind creating p2 was to be able to support 
> updating across releases (3.4.x -> 3.5). I've read in various places (bug 
> reports, wiki pages, newsgroups) that the goal was achieved. It's probably 
> discussed somewhere here http://wiki.eclipse.org/Category:Equinox_p2 but I 
> don't know where, exactly.


Well, color me pleasantly surprised!  Thanks for the clarification.