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Bug 330579

Summary:	[director] Allow for incomplete version numbers to be specified on the command line
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Jacek Pospychala <jacek.pospychala>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	irbull, pascal, pwebster
Version:	3.6	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description Jacek Pospychala

2010-11-18 10:40:02 EST

I'm trying this on top of Eclipse 3.6.0:

Fails:
eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios -installIU org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.feature.feature.group/1.2.2

Succeeds:
eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios -installIU  org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.feature.feature.group/1.2.2.v201008170101-7C78FGMF9JgLWLMUUEMtXc

I only want to install JSDT 1.2.2, instead of 1.2.0, but it's not easy without knowing exact qualifier number.
it'd be utterly cool to get rid of qualifiers, and just use 3-part version numbers.

Comment 1 Ian Bull

2010-11-18 12:10:44 EST

I don't think 'get rid of qualifiers' is the answer, as there are times when we need to install a specific version.  But the idea of using a 3 part (or even a 2 or 1 part version), and the director automatically choosing the latest version that matches that partial version, is interesting.

I could then install org.eclipse.sdk.ide 3.6, and it would take the latest 3.6. version from the consulted repos.

Comment 2 Jacek Pospychala

2010-11-19 02:04:40 EST

yes, that's exactly what I meant. sorry if it sounded  I don't want qualifiers at all...

Comment 3 Pascal Rapicault

2010-11-20 13:42:42 EST

This is a cool idea and good step toward improved usability. If you want to look into it, the code is in DIrectorApplication#collectRoots (in bundle org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director.app).

Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:18:06 EDT

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