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Bug 312366

Summary:	[repository] Review behaviour of 3.6 repo when loading an IU of generation > 2
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	henrik.lindberg, irbull, thomas
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Pascal Rapicault

2010-05-10 22:58:31 EDT

We should prepare for the eventuality of having to create yet another serialization format for IU and make sure that the repo reader handle the appearance of generation attribute superior to 2 in a graceful way.

Comment 1 Thomas Hallgren

2010-05-11 03:26:47 EDT

I'd suggest that we do this with Xtext. It could help us to create a very compact and yet very readable serialization format. We could then also use this format to actually author individual IU's (with syntax coloring, code completion, and all other bells and whistles that comes in the same bag).

p2 should probably have it's own serializer/parser for the syntax that we create so that we don't introduce more dependencies to the actual runtime.

Comment 2 Thomas Watson

2011-06-08 11:28:24 EDT

Move all 3.8 bugs to Juno.

Comment 3 Ian Bull

2012-06-29 12:30:11 EDT

Any point in keeping this bug open?

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2019-10-13 17:57:32 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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