[news.eclipse.technology] Re: Updates with Eclipse are very uncomfortabl

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I feel your pain. A lot of work is currently going into provisioning.
The "p2" project [1] is delivering some new code that should address
these problems. The new code is expected in the M6 release and will be
part of the Eclipse Ganymede release.

Wayne

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/incubator/provisioning/

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 20:36 +0100, Thomas Steinbach wrote:
> Hello NG,
> 
> First:
> I'mm not a constant user of eclipse, but if I
> try to "Search for updates of the currently installed features",
> the Update Manager process needs a very long time. The Update
> Manager holds out about >60 minutes and more (2h/3h). Why?
> Please take a look at my screenshots 1-3:
> http://www.failure.bravehost.com/eclipse/
> 
> Second:
> If I search for new features to install, the Update Manager ends
> with an error. It seems there are no more updates available, but
> why is there no "normal" dialog which reports this in a "user-friendly"
> way that there are no more updates?
> That's always confusing to me and with this error message
> I always think there is something wrong with my installation, isn't it?
> Please take a look at my screenshots 4-5:
> http://www.failure.bravehost.com/eclipse/
> 
> 
> Thomas
>