+1. But I think calling these two online & offline is misleading.
How about with dependencies & without dependencies?

/sumedha

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Chathuri Wimalasena <chath...@wso2.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> For CS 2.0.0, we need to have Eclipse GMF related bundles installed in to
> the Eclipse instance that is running. At the moment what we do is, ask
> users to do an online installation of CS 2.0.0, so all the needed bundles
> will be downloaded and installed. This online installation takes sometime,
> if the internet connection of the user is not strong enough. A jira [1] is
> also being reported. As another option what we can do is add all the GMF
> related bundles inside CS 2.0.0 distribution which will allow users to
> install CS in very short period. But this has some drawbacks such as
>
>    - Distribution will be increased by 40-50MB of size
>    - Needed plugin list is huge (near 115 bundles) and all those bundles
>    should be added to the pom and maven repo
>    - Once we do that, we stick to  a specific version of those plugins.
>    But if we allow online installation, it will always download the latest
>    versions from the repos
>
> We are planning to give two distributions as online installation (which
> will be less in size, but take some time to install) and offline
> installation (which will be extra 40-50MB in size, but take very small time
> to install). WDYT ?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Chathuri
>
> [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/TOOLS-878
>
> --
> Chathuri Wimalasena
> Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.;  http://wso2.com/
> email: chath...@wso2.com; phone: +94 772 608 596
> blog: http://chathuriwimalasena.blogspot.com/
>



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/sumedha
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