RE: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Re: [cross-project-issues-dev]Re: Ecl

["Gaff, Doug" <doug.gaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for the update site on the stick.

I think packages are the right direction for the future, but given that
they currently omit some Ganymede projects, I have to agree with Martin
and others that it's against the spirit of EclipseCon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eclipse.org-planning-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:eclipse.org-planning-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Martin Oberhuber
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:21 PM
> To: Cross project issues
> Cc: eclipse.org-planning-council
> Subject: Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Re: [cross-project-issues-
> dev]Re: EclipseCon memory stick and Ganymede M5
> 
> Is EclipseCon really the right place to promote EPP packages on the
> stick?
> Some facts:
> 
> * An EPP Package can also be downloaded fairly easily because it's a
> single download. Using the update site, however, is painful.
> * I thought that EclipseCon is for showing the breadth of the
> Ecosystem,
> and allow people try out something they haven't tried before.
> * You argue yourself that you expect most attendees to already have a
> JVM and "some" version of Eclipse on their Laptops. Wouldn't they be
> more interested in getting broad exposure to lots of projects, rather
> than just another version of the base Platform?
> * Looking at disk space, it appears we have 840 MB available.
>    - As of today, Ganymede/staging/plugins is 540 MB -- jars only no
> .pack.gz at all.
>    - Ganymede/staging/features is 9MB
>    - Base Eclipse is 78MB per Platform if we have them start with Java
> IDE (including XML Edit, Mylyn to promote these)
>   ==> should allow for 78 x 3 = 250 + 540 + 9 = 800 MB giving all 3
> win32, linux32, MacOS plus some slack space.
> 
> Sounds a lot more compelling for me than duplication of various
> variants
> of EPP packages...
> 
> Also note that the .jar only ganymede site would work with 1.4 JVMs.
> If we decided to ship 1.5 or 1.6 JVM's we could ship a .pack.gz
variant
> instead, so that should also fit...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Martin Oberhuber
> Wind River Systems, Inc.
> Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
> http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
> 
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