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| Summary: | [target] Make resolution mode more granular for software sites | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] PDE | Reporter: | Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | jeffmcaffer, rsternberg |
| Version: | 3.7 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | stalebug | ||
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Description
Gunnar Wagenknecht
yup. would be nice but there are a lot of impacts of doing that. As it is, each target maps to one profile. That profile can only be resolved one way-- either with the planner or the slicer. If you use the planner you cannot say you want all platforms since the planner is trying to make a very precise, runnable setup. If we switch to use one profile per software site in the target then they can be resolved independently and the various switches can be flipped independently. The target may then end up being inconsistent with conflicting content, unnecessary multiple versions, ... Perahps there is a middle ground where we use the slicer but a various points run the planner to find missing things and make it easy to get them. This would have the convenience of "just get everything I need" and the flexibility of "get all platforms", ... (In reply to comment #1) > yup. would be nice but there are a lot of impacts of doing that. As it is, > each target maps to one profile. That profile can only be resolved one way-- > either with the planner or the slicer. That's what I figured. > [...] unnecessary multiple versions, ... I can't use the planner and I do have multiple versions in my target. That's very annoying. > Perahps there is a middle ground where we use the slicer but a various points > run the planner to find missing things and make it easy to get them. This > would have the convenience of "just get everything I need" and the flexibility > of "get all platforms", ... From a usability point of view it would be great if a user wouldn't have to deal with checking boxes. Just hook the target and you are done. (In reply to comment #2) > I can't use the planner and I do have multiple versions in my target. That's > very annoying. You can have multiple versions but only if that is explicitly required/allowed by the things you are adding to the target. The planner is the full on resolver that is used in p2. It is attempting to find the minimal set of bundles that meet the expressed requirements for a given platform as it would if were installing into normal executable profile. I almost never use the planner (include required) for managing targets in the runtime context. That is one reason we have the Target Components elements in the release repos. You can just "get" Equinox/ECF/RAP/Virgo/... and then setup a runtime config based on the features that that brought down. Anyway, yes, having this be as easy as possible would be good. 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. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. If the bug is still relevant please remove the stalebug whiteboard tag. |