Hi Peter, hi Charles,
2) We need to get an updated integration build fo the custom builds of EGit and EMF Compare in place. The 0.8 RCP build used the nightly build, and the Oomph end-user setup uses the (too old) integration build (which in its turn casues the Oomph based installation to bring in the non-custom builds of EGit and EMF Compare part of the Neon.1 release). This needs to be aligned, based on updated integration builds. As I understood it from Philip, work is ongoing with providing updated integration builds of the custom builds of EGit and EMF Compare. When that has been provided, we need to update the .tpd-files to use the integration build repos instead.
I'm actually working on the custom EGit/EMFCompare integration build right now. We should be able to publish it next week. Once this is published, the plan is to use the nightly custom build only in the Papyrus-RT nightly builds and everywhere else (integration & release), the integration EGit/EMFCompare build.
I haven’t tried the compare/merge feature yet. What is the impact on the user on leaving as is?
Based on this, we can decide to either document the impact (as above, taking advantage of incubation leeway), provide new v0.8.1 installers, or defer to 0.9.
The short-term impact of using the nightly builds is de-facto zero, as the current nightly build is actually the release candidate for the next EMF Compare version and, hence, the release candidate for the custom EGit/EMFCompare integration build. This is also why we suggested to use the EGit/EMFCompare nightliy build until the integration build is available.
Mid-term we want to switch back to the integration build for all integration/stable releases of Papyrus-RT, because the EGit/EMFCompare nightly may get unstable again in near future (as is the nature of nightly builds). The release of the custom EGit/EMFCompare integration build is done manually, so we have full control when to publish it and may do some manual validation before.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if there are any questions!
Best wishes,
Philip