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Re: [papyrus-rt-dev] Papyrus-RT Installer ready to use
Hi,

I've tested the Papyrus-RT Installer on Windows, and the self-extracting archive. Works really well! Now when you don't have first unzip and then (manually) trying to locate the unzipped executable (which in practice makes it even easier to install than using the RCP, especially when you also get the icon/short-cut created on the desktop created automatically). 

Regarding the issue with (currently) not being able to install, i.e. the old 0.7.x releases, is due to a regression of the setup file. When the EGit/EMF Compare features was added to the setup file (rather long time after 0.7.2 was released), the related p2 repos (with the custom builds) was not added to the setup file. So the setup file for the old 0.7.x releases seem to have been broken for quite some time.

And now with the self-extracting installer, I am not sure how to test the actual installation of 0.8 (currently only available in the pending Gerrit chagne), since the manual redirection of the index that I made earlier is a bit more tricky with the self-extractor.

Should we introduce some staging version of the setup file (published on the web site), and I guess the installer itself, to be able to test this a bit more as "real" as possible, before the actual release? Or is that just a waste?

/Peter Cigéhn

On 20 October 2016 at 22:46, Christian Damus <give.a.damus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ah, okay, that's good. 

The Papyrus-RT index (so far) includes also the user setups so that users can use Oomph to add whatever other tools into their installs that they like, using their own local setup models.  We may decide not to enable that, although I think it's fairly important for usability.

Basically all that this custom installer does is to acces our Papyrus-RT index by default instead of the Eclipse.org index.  Everything else is in the index, which is hosted on our website, not in the installer.

cW


On October 20, 2016 at 16:41:08, Ernesto Posse (eposse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

Ah, I see. I had in fact three menus:

Papyrus-RT (twice) and Papyrus-RT development testing (i.e. tester).

Looking at the Product catalogs, I had both <User Products> and Papyrus-RT selected. After unselecting <User Products> I get only Papyrus-RT.



On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:34 PM Christian Damus <give.a.damus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for getting on this so quickly, Ernesto!

This error looks like a problem in the setup.  And in the first launch of this installer, I would expect you to see only one Papyrus-RT product, which is still 0.7.  I suspect somehow it is picking up the wrong index for you.

There's a new feature now available in the hamburger menu that lets you switch to another index. Can you look in there to see which index you have and, which product catalogues you have selected in that index, and if it's not the Papyus-RT index then what happens if you switch to that?

cW


On October 20, 2016 at 16:28:23, Ernesto Posse (eposse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

Looks very nice! I gave it a spin (on mac) but I ran into trouble:

1) There are two identical "Papyrus-RT" entries in the main menu, I don't know if they are duplicates or they are supposed to be different.

2) I tried both and ran into the same error: Failed to install:

[2016-10-20 16:25:28] ERROR: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director code=10053 Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  at org.eclipse.oomph.util.OomphPlugin.coreException(OomphPlugin.java:280)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.p2.internal.core.ProfileTransactionImpl.resolve(ProfileTransactionImpl.java:425)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.p2.internal.core.ProfileTransactionImpl.commit(ProfileTransactionImpl.java:337)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.p2.impl.P2TaskImpl.perform(P2TaskImpl.java:729)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.core.SetupTaskPerformer.doPerformNeededSetupTasks(SetupTaskPerformer.java:3151)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.core.SetupTaskPerformer.performNeededSetupTasks(SetupTaskPerformer.java:3079)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.core.SetupTaskPerformer.performTriggeredSetupTasks(SetupTaskPerformer.java:3060)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.core.SetupTaskPerformer.perform(SetupTaskPerformer.java:2960)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.installer.SimpleVariablePage.installPerform(SimpleVariablePage.java:1271)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.installer.SimpleVariablePage.access$31(SimpleVariablePage.java:1148)
  at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.installer.SimpleVariablePage$20.run(SimpleVariablePage.java:1093)
  ERROR: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director code=0 Software being installed: artificial_root 1.0.0.v1476995126661
  ERROR: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director code=0 Missing requirement: artificial_root 1.0.0.v1476995126661 requires 'org.eclipse.emf.compare.egit.feature.group 0.0.0' but it could not be found

PS: The icon is not that bad ;)
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:01 PM Christian Damus <give.a.damus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, Team,

In our release readiness call earlier this week, I opined that I did not feel the Oomph-based Papyrus-RT Installer was ready for prime time.  However, since then, several further developments have occurred:
  • Ed Merks fixed our most significant issues with customization of window title, icon, and menu action branding for Papyrus-RT in the Eclipse Installer (in the Oomph project)
  • I implemented signing of the Mac installer RCP to satisfy the MacOS Gatekeeper
  • I implemented creation of the self-extracting executable installer for Windows platform, also signed with the Eclipse Foundation certificate
I also determined that the problems I was seeing with the Mac installer showing no information in the About dialog and wanting an unnecessary software self-update were caused by the new App Translocation feature in the MacOS Sierra version of the Gatekeeper.  This affects all self-updating software (including native apps using frameworks like Sparkle) and, of course, all EPPs and other RCPs provided by Eclipse.  And it is easily evaded after download anyways.  Therefore, this in no way hinders any publication of this installer.

So, I think now the installer is ready for general use, but of course it won’t have the 0.8 Papyrus-RT release yet in its catalogue because that doesn’t exist.  It does, however, have the 0.7.x releases and seems to be able to install them.

To take the installer for a spin, download the variant appropriate to your platform from

http://download.eclipse.org/papyrus-rt/installer/updates/nightly/

A word of caution:  try to avert your eyes from the installer app icon.  I hacked it together, myself, and it is hideous.  I am no artist.

Note also that the Windows installer binary currently shows the Eclipse Installer icon, not the Papyrus-RT installer, in the Windows Explorer.  This is because so far we are re-using the extractor binary from the Eclipse Installer and it isn’t worth trying to figure out how to replace it until we have a good icon.

If we are interested in promoting this installer as a distribution method for the 0.8 release, then I should note that it is currently built on pre-release nightlies of the Oomph installer framework because the latest release does not provide the customizability that we need (neither in branding nor managing custom indices).  So we should understand that this isn’t a “release build” of the installer and I don’t know when the next Eclipse Installer release will be on which we can base a “release” of our installer.

Cheers,

Christian

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