Equinox p2 Status

This page captures interesting changes each week to the Equinox provisioning effort going on in the Equinox incubator.

Week of 20071202

• Dave is testing this week using Equinox p2 tests

Week of 20071126

• Susan is testing this week

Week of 20071119

• Andrew O is testing this week

Week of 20071112

• Pascal is testing this week
• UI work on Available IU presentation/navigation
  • sorting, duplicates, categories
  • investigating using IQueryable for client definition of content providers (groups, categories, etc.)
• Initial work on artifact GC
• Exploration with pseudo boolean SAT solver. Discussion with SAT4J community.
• API cleanup.
• New query API.

Week of 20071105

• Completed the Equinox p2 1.0 Features sheet.
• Completed the Equinox p2 1.0 Technical Specs.
• Investigate using SAT solvers.
• API cleanup started.
• UI cleanup and performance investigations (deferred content providers, etc.)

Week of 20071015

• Refinement on the questions Equinox Provisioning Plan#Questions for M3.
• Patch prototyping the governor to restart the discussion in that space.
• Work on the 3.4 feature list to be circulated among us next week.
• Support for cross-platform provisioning from a single repository
• Finished removal of dependency on Javascript
• Support for running generator against update site
• Refinement of UI workflows
• Artifact repository optimizer for supporting pack200

Week of 20071008

• Simple SWT-based installer
• Overhaul of director/planner API and implementation
• Provisioning symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe 2007
• Working on replacement for Javascript in the Engine
• Working on replacement for XStream

Week of 20071001

• Renamed bundles and packages from org.eclipse.equinox.prov.* to org.eclipse.equinox.p2.*
• Overhaul of artifact/metadata repository API
• New director API to decouple director from engine and allow introspection
• Discussion and rethinking of entry-point concept

Week of 20070924

• Most p2 committers at Equinox Summit 2007
• 3.4 M3 planning

Week of 20070917

• Resolved remaining issues with absolute paths
• Prepared M2 deliverable (agent, and metadata/artifacts for Eclipse SDK 3.4 M2)

Week of 20070910

• Separation of properties views in admin and end-user UI
• UI support for update from admin and end-user UI

Week of 20070903

• UI support for colocated repositories
• UI uses install oracle to prequalify an install
• Branding of eclipse.ini/eclipse.exe files
• Generate proper metadata and artifacts for a JRE
• Investigation of running p2 in a Foundation 1.1 environment
• Review and cleanup of artifact/metadata repository APIs
• UI generates entry point IU's on install

Week of 20070820

• Better error reporting for unsatisfied dependencies from director
• Initial support for rollback
• Initial detection of update between states and improved computation of operations
• Initial support for entry points
• Initial oracle API to allow for filtering of non-installable things
• Initial UI with end user workflow (incomplete)

Week of 20070813

• Added support for selectors (see bug 200104 for details)
• Discussion on role of the director on equinox-dev
• Discussion on the [role of the engine]
• Discussion and implementation of post-processing of downloaded artifacts (see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=197644 bug 197644 for details)
• Support for keeping track of the resolved state of IUs
• Support for multiple versions and singletons in the dependency expander
• Discussions of update/install UI workflows from other RCP apps
• Refactor UI plug-ins to separate common code, end-user UI, and admin UI.

Week of 20070806

• Added automated director tests
• Released support for platform filters
• Improved progress reporting and cancelation
• Design discussions on support for shared installs
• Prepared and release Provisioning M1a containing Eclipse SDK 3.4 M1

Week of 20070730

• Created build scripts for building provisioning metadata and agent
• Prepared and released Equinox p2 M1

Week of 20070723

• Created administrator RCP application (agent UI)
• Created UI views for browsing and manipulating metadata repositories, artifact repositories, and install profiles

Week of 20070716

• Investigation on hooking the metadata generation in the SDK build
• Refactor closure computation of director into a specific class
• Implement a new algorithm for the closure computation, however recommendations have not been moved there
• More work on the uninstall for optional IUs
• MetadataHelper replaced with query facility
• Initial commit of the UI work
• Setup build infrastructure
• Wrap MD generator in ant task

Week of 20070709

• Initial implementation of the recommendations (aka constraints) released. See doc http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_Provisioning_Recommendation_descriptors.
• Initial release of the write API for metadata repository (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=194674) and starts usage of it
• First version of uninstall working
• Add progress monitor for UI work
• Setup of build

Week of 20070702

• Combined IDependency and RequiredCapability into one interface
• Refactored NameBasedDependency and FilterBasedDependency into RequiredCapability objects
• Fixed various bugs with filters on RequiredCapability, and added filtering JUnit tests
• Implemented full translation of version ranges into filters