[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Re: self contained equinox based ecl

[Ferenc Boldog <ferenc.boldog@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> This is really interesting work.
Thx.

> Have you looked at creating an installer 
> based on the equinox provisioning work?
not yet, but I am going to take a look into it.

> One could think of two approaches here, one much like what you are doing and 
> the other where the initial download would just be the installer and the 
> rest of the bytes would be downloaded from the web.
Yes, the updater/online installer version is more complicated (parsing 
the site.xml, version checking), with the installer size staying small.
One of the possible solution, remove the unneeded classes form the plugins.
ie: current jface normal compressed (pack.gz) size: 281kb, and the 
working (with my installer) stripped-down: 49kb.

Ferenc