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Bug 470240

Summary:	Discontinue support for SDK dropins and only provide zipped p2 repositories.
Product:	[Tools] GEF	Reporter:	Alexander Nyßen <nyssen>
Component:	Misc	Assignee:	gef-inbox <gef-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	4.0.0 / 3.11.0 (Neon) M2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	472526
Bug Blocks:

Description Alexander Nyßen

2015-06-16 04:37:54 EDT

As there is various eclipse infrastructure to work with p2 repositories, these should be the only artifacts we provide via our downloads page. We should discontinue our support for providing various SDK dropins. We should also provide a simple p2 repository instead of an update-site that was converted to runnable form (repo2runnable) as currently done. In addition to the GEF update-site we should also provide a zipped p2 repository for GEF4.

Comment 1 Alexander Nyßen

2015-06-16 05:10:16 EDT

The download link provided on https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.gef/downloads should then point to the single downloads page that provides the zipped p2 repositories.

Comment 2 Alexander Nyßen

2015-07-10 09:41:15 EDT

A correction: the update site archives we deploy are not provided in runnable form. As such, they can stay as is. When migrating the build infrastructure to GEF HIPP (see bug #471151), I changed the GEF4 promotion to also produce an update site archive. It is not shown on the downloads page yet, i.e. we will have to adjust the web page accordingly. 

What remains to be done to discontinue drop files support is to remove the creation of SDK archive drop files from the GEF promotion script and to adjust the web page to no longer require these artifacts.

Comment 3 Alexander Nyßen

2015-07-13 11:40:22 EDT

Add dependency on bug #472526, which addresses the refactoring of our webpage to support downloads of GEF4 update-site archives.

Comment 4 Alexander Nyßen

2015-09-25 10:41:26 EDT

Updated build job to no longer produce sdk drop-files. May resolve this a fixed after having announced it on our mailing list when promoting 3.11.0 M2.

Comment 5 Alexander Nyßen

2015-09-28 13:37:08 EDT

Announced that SDK drop files are no longer provided with Neon M2. Resolving as fixed.