Hi Eike, There is some discussion on https://bugs.eclipse.org/441957 (with a link to https://bugs.eclipse.org/381751). The idea is to add a p2.inf late in the Mars cycle which will allow updating from a Juno SR? to the new package in Mars. I’ve opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/446983 to track the effort.
-Gunnar Am 13.10.2014 um 06:17 schrieb Eike Stepper <step...@esc-net.de>: > Hi, > > I have noticed that the former "Eclipse Standard" package has recently been > renamed to "Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers". Personally I don't like the > new name because it suggests that this package contains something in addition > to the (classic) minimum which is only meant for committers and that seems > wrong. But more importantly, I think there were two things wrong with the > renaming process itself: > > 1) The preceeding discussion took place in http://bugs.eclipse.org/443296 and > not on this list. IIRC not even a link to this bug was posted on this list. > As a result it seems that the decision was influenced/made by just a handful > people. > > 2) This "renaming" wasn't just a change of the user-visible label and sorting > order but instead the fundamental IDs of the installable p2 units were > changed from "eep.package.standard" to "epp.package.committers"; to the > effect that existing Eclipse Standard installations cannot update to Mars > (M2) anymore, but fail with mysterious errors about Eclipse Compare conflicts. > > Given that the Eclipse Standard package was by far the most downloaded > package by the end of Kepler and still among the 3 (or so) most popular > packages for Luna this change of the p2 ID seems extremely disruptive for a > very large group of users (must be millions) and I wonder if that was really > the intention. > > If there's confusion about the good old "Eclipse Standard" package on the > download page I suggest to change its user-visible label on that download > page and possibly in the p2 metadata. But unless I miss an important point I > suggest to continue to provide package IUs with the existing ID > "epp.package.standard" and ideally even change Mars M2 to do so. > > Cheers > /Eike > > ---- > http://www.esc-net.de > http://thegordian.blogspot.com > http://twitter.com/eikestepper > > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev -- Gunnar Wagenknecht gun...@wagenknecht.org _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
