+1 to have a complete download of CS as well.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Sumedha Rubasinghe <sume...@wso2.com> wrote:
> +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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