Nitin,

The platform's https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.24-I-builds/ is like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<?compositeMetadataRepository version='1.0.0'?>
<repository name='The Eclipse Project repository' type='org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.CompositeMetadataRepository' version='1.0.0'>
  <properties size='3'>
    <property name='p2.timestamp' value='1654000208596'/>
    <property name='p2.compressed' value='true'/>
    <property name='p2.atomic.composite.loading' value='true'/>
  </properties>
  <children size='7'>
    <child location='categories'/>
    <child location='I20220528-1800'/>
    <child location='I20220529-0600'/>
    <child location='I20220529-1800'/>
    <child location='I20220530-0600'/>
    <child location='I20220530-1800'/>
    <child location='I20220531-0600'/>
  </children>
</repository>

What's the benefit of that?

I don't think there's a big benefit to such a composite; I think someone once said that this way you can roll back and update... And sometime people specify very exact versions in their *.target too.

In any case, it's just always been done this way, and likely if we changed it we'd find out what assumptions are broken by changing it...

On 31.05.2022 18:40, Nitin Dahyabhai wrote:
Is there a benefit to having a composite of more than one milestone, or one build for that matter?

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:10 AM Ed Merks <ed.me...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Lars,

    That's to be expected for a composite that is composed of all the
    milestones for 2022-06 so far...

    The concern is about duplicates in a simple repository, e.g.,

    
https://download.eclipse.org/oomph/archive/reports/download.eclipse.org/releases/2022-06/https___download.eclipse.org_releases_2022-06_202205271000.html

    On 31.05.2022 16:59, Lars Vogel wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > 2022-06 contains multiple versions of the Eclipse platform SDK, see
    >
    https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng/issues/32
    > for a screenshot.
    >
    > The Eclipse TLP only contributes one version so someone else might
    > contribute older versions.
    >
    > AFAIK the simrel is very concerned about multiple versions of
    plug-ins
    > therefore I post this info here.
    >
    > Best regards, Lars
    >
    >
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