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RE: [cross-project-issues-dev] Update Site improvements for Calli sto

Since Pack200 is in J2SE 5.0, does that you won’t be able to download Callisto with Java 1.4?

 

Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems

Eclipse CDT Project Lead, Tools PMC member

http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com

 


From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Niefer
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 5:27 PM
To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Update Site improvements for Callisto

 


Starting in RC2 (or nightly build N20060423-0010) org.eclipse.update.core will have support for optimizing update sites.  This support takes the form of digests and Pack200.

Pack200 is a jar compression utility in J2SE 5.0, using it can reduce the size of a jar by about 60% depending on its contents.  However, Pack200 makes non-semantic changes to the class files.  To ensure that the bits downloaded from a packed update site are the same bits the you get from a normal zip distribution, project should condition their jars as part of their build process.

I have put together 2 wiki pages to cover this issue: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Update_Site_Optimization and http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Pack200.

Projects should please take a look and send me any feedback or questions you may have.

-Andrew


 


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