| Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Possible removal of Orbit all-in-one zip? |
I presume that a query for *.zip would produce hits for all of the directory-based bundles which are included in orbit. (they are zips and not jars)
We are only interested in the Orbit all-in-one download... the individual bundles will not be removed. :-)
cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/26/2009 02:38:47 PM:
> Btw, the count is greater if I query for "/tools/orbit/downloads/%.zip"
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DJ Houghton" <DJ_Houghton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "cross project issues" <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:13:05 AM GMT +06:00 Almaty, Novosibirsk
> Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Possible removal of Orbit all-in-one zip?
>
>
>
>
> For the Galileo release the Orbit team will be modifying the build
> to produce p2 repositories. This has brought up discussion
> surrounding the zip file that we currently produce which contains
> all of the Orbit bundles in one file.
>
> When Orbit first started it made sense to provide this zip file as a
> convenience for people who were interested in multiple bundles.
> Today Orbit has grown in size and we now produce over 240 bundles in
> each build. Because of this, we question whether or not these large
> zip files (about 100MB) are still useful.
>
> So the question is, do people still download the orbit zip file or
> do they access the bundles individually via HTTP (or through a map
> file entry, etc).
>
> Based on query results [1] it looks like this file is no longer used
> but we wanted to confirm before removing it in future builds.
>
> If you have objections to the removal of this zip file, please
> comment in bug 266232. [2]
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----
> [1] Using the Eclipse Portal ( http://portal.eclipse.org ) you are
> able to query the download stats for any given file. These are the
> results of a query for "orbit-*.zip". Looks like nothing has been
> downloaded since 2007.
>
> Your query results:
>
> Filename: /tools/orbit/committers/drops/%/orbit-%.zip
> Date from:
> Date to:
>
> 14: /tools/orbit/committers/drops/I200711280603/orbit-I200711280603.zip
> 2: /tools/orbit/committers/drops/I200712030824/orbit-I200712030824.zip
>
>
> ----
> [2] Bugs of interest:
>
> Orbit build should produce p2 repositories
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=241427
>
> Consider changing the layout of Orbit build results
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=266232
>
>
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