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Bug 305279

Summary: There is an Eclipse Platform "I version" feature in helios milestone?
Product: Community Reporter: David Williams <david_williams>
Component: Cross-ProjectAssignee: Cross-Project issues <cross-project.inbox>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: john.arthorne
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description David Williams CLA 2010-03-09 22:17:34 EST 
Currently, the /releases/helios repository contains (mostly) M5 content. 

By chance, I happened to notice there is some odd "I version" feature for the Eclipse Platform (similar for Eclipse SDK, etc.) Namely, there are 

  Eclipse Platform	3.6.0.v20100121-9hF71GITFufnsj44XsigdRiv20ClbUb3ou
  Eclipse Platform	3.6.0.I20100129-1300

The first one is what's installed as part of M5 downloadable zip, and I realize that "I" comes "before" lower case "v" ... but, this oddly named duplication concerns me. 

Is someone besides the platform contributing? Did the Eclipse Project have a "special" contribution for M5? 

I'm opening this bug for awareness and discussion. The "fix" would be any (future) processes that cause extra versions of the Platform to be dragged into the repository.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2010-03-10 13:45:21 EST 
(In reply to comment #0)
>   Eclipse Platform    3.6.0.v20100121-9hF71GITFufnsj44XsigdRiv20ClbUb3ou

This is the Eclipse platform feature.

>   Eclipse Platform    3.6.0.I20100129-1300

This is the Eclipse platform installable root. I.e., it ties together the Eclipse Platform feature with the launcher and other native bits to make a runnable application.

So, this looks normal to me. They have the same name, because from the user's point of view when they look at the list of installed software, it should look like they have the "Eclipse Platform" installed. I.e., it's the exact same set of bundles, but one has the native launcher bits attached to make it into a runnable application.

Do you think this only started appearing recently? Maybe we didn't contribute this to the aggregate repository in the past but now we are? I don't recall us intending to make a change like this.
Comment 2 David Williams CLA 2010-03-11 00:44:07 EST 
I just now looked in Galileo repo, and the funny same names - odd versioning is there too. Thanks for clarifying.