[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Re: Ganymede M7 packages

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John J Barton wrote:
> Markus Knauer wrote:
> > Eric Rizzo wrote:
> >
> > > Eric Rizzo wrote:
> > > > Where are they? The page http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/
> > > > still lists the M6 builds.
> > > > According to
> > > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede#Milestones_and_Release_Candidates the
> > > > M7 builds should be available to the public.
> > > Looks like I was a little too aggressive in my expectations. The M7
> > > package builds are now available. Thanks to the EPP team for your work!
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a link the the New and Noteworthy page for M7?
> > >
> > > Eric
> >
> > Yup, you were too aggressive ;-)
> >
> > On the other hand, we were late because we had to rebuild the packages 
> > just
> > yesterday, and therefore we had to wait for the Eclipse mirror servers to
> > sync with the new content before switching the website to M7.
> >
> > New and Noteworthy: If you are talking about the Eclipse Platform New and
> > Noteworthy, it's here:
> > http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.4M7-200805020100/eclipse-news-M7.html 
>
> This page says it will be out May 2, but now on May 15 my M6 still won't 
> update. Any clues?

First of all, the Platform M7 build was available on May 2, but that is 
not sufficient for an EPP package to be available. See 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede#Milestones_and_Release_Candidates for 
the schedule of milestone availability.
M7 packages are available at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/

I'm not sure that the Milestone builds are intended to update. In the 
past (with the old Update Manager), that was definitely not the case; 
you had to download the new M-builds directly.
I'm copying this to the platform newsgroup since the update questions is 
more appropriate there.

Eric