Today we officially announced the first SDK I-build including p2.
This is pretty exciting as it is the first deployment outside of our immediate team of our completely new mechanism to install / uninstall and update eclipse-based applications.
For the end-user, the important aspects of this new technology are:
- A brand new UI with simplified workflows
- A 4Mb installer for the SDK, yes 4000Kb
- Bundle pooling limiting downloads by sharing bundles common to multiple products
- Multi-threaded and adaptative download technology
- Transparent handling of mirrors
- The ability to fully provision eclipse (including config files)
- ...
Please note that this is still work in progress and therefore limitations of this first integration will be removed in the coming weeks.
To try it on, get the equinox-p2-sdk-* files, and for the installer get the equinox.p2.installer*.
Also to learn more about p2 join me at EclipseCon for a talk and a BOF.
Enjoy!
4 comments:
Pascal, it is not clear to me how to actually install the 2 downloaded files. Is there some basic readme available online?
I'm getting 404 when I try to download :(
The first download is a normal SDK. Therefore you should be able to unzip it and run. Nothing special, except you have p2 under the covers and as a new UI for Help > Software Updates.
The second download is an installer. If you unzip it and run the exe, it will install the SDK in a specified folder.
Both zips are independent of each others.
There is also a little bit of information at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started
Michael, you must be re-rooted to an invalid mirror. Please try another one.
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