Equinox p2 Meeting 20080310

Attendees

• Andrew N
• Andrew O
• Darin
• Dave
• DJ
• Jeff
• John
• McQ
• Pascal
• Simon
• Susan
• Tim M

Minutes

• Working on running automated tests on p2-enabled SDK
• Tests work by unzipping SDK, then unzipping test plugins on top
  • Investigating unzipping tests into dropins folder rather than directly on top of SDK
  • Fixing up paths in Ant scripts

• Do we still need the metadata cache?
  • There is an issue with stale data in there, but no way to flush it

• Working on making dropins folder more powerful
  • Supporting different shapes, such as dropins/plugins, dropins/eclipse/plugins, dropins/emf/plugins, etc
  • Support for adding *.lnk files into dropins folder
  • Nice to also support a sub-directory of dropins that just contains bundle jars

• Authentication
  • Storing login/password information in Equinox secure preference store

• Resolver
  • SAT4J approved and should be in this week's I-build
  • Jed and Tim W working with SAT4J team on improved explanation of resolution failure

• UI wizardry
  • Working on being able to add directories as update sites, and call the generator to produce metadata
  • Will then work on gee-whiz features like dragging links from web sites to install, etc

• Generator
  • Jeff working on refactoring generator to be less monolithic, more flexible
  • Break generator work down into actions that can be combined in different way
  • Coordinate with Jeff if you're making generator changes in the near future