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Bug 222986

Summary: Should we be providing a pre-built director?
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Component: p2Assignee: P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: jcayne, jeffmcaffer, pascal
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description DJ Houghton CLA 2008-03-17 13:56:53 EDT 
For RelEng teams, the story going forward is to generate p2 metadata with PDE/Build and then to install things with the director.

The problem is where are they supposed to get the director app from? The Platform team builds the director feature so they always have it around, but other teams need to be able to get a pre-built director from some location.
Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2008-03-17 14:07:59 EDT 
Today, releng teams get PDE build out of the SDK and sometimes trim the SDK to something smaller. I don't see us producing yet another download. Another approach could simply be to have an IU available that people can install with p2 to install what is necessary to run the build.
Comment 2 Jeff McAffer CLA 2008-03-26 21:00:07 EDT 
another option is to include the director app in the admin UI.  Peopel can then run it with a different app and command line.
Comment 3 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2008-03-28 20:33:35 EDT 
Doing the admin ui is probably fine for most people, however in our case we would like to keep the bootstrap minimal and also telling people to dl a UI based application to run in a build would probably be the source of confusion.
Comment 4 Jeff McAffer CLA 2008-03-29 11:15:00 EDT 
right.  I expected the admin ui to be included as a tool from the Equinox site, no t part of the main download.  Basically anyone wanting to do rep management, director installs etc could get this if they wanted..
Comment 5 John Arthorne CLA 2008-04-22 11:05:18 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 225778 ***