Equinox/p2/Meetings/20091109

Agenda

big reorg of the UI is coming, are we ok with things being broken this week while service starting/registration issues are sorted out?

Susan working on major UI refactoring
Pulling out reusable code and creating basic operation API
Currently UI in broken state, working through service configuration problems
Private builds: https://build.eclipse.org/hudson/job/equinox_R3_6_api_cleanup/
Susan is going to release current work to p2 api cleanup branch and continue working on it from there
New UI bundle - reload project sets
Multi-agent support available in branch
- Some parts of p2 still refer to global services but core parts are multi-agent aware
- Ready for PDE and others to give it a try
Queries
- Should we support notion of visitors on IQueryable?
  - No. If we want to visit results that could be done via the collector
- Repository could implement collector in a way that lazily returns results to avoid having everything in memory
- Should we move to a predicate language to describe queries 'over the wire'
- Concern is that current query API is too flexible and impossible to implement on a remote repository