Comments on Bull's Blog: A p2 Success Story

Thanks for the positive post Ian. Generally peopl...

2008-05-26T15:28:00.000Z

Thanks for the positive post Ian. Generally people are silent when things "just work" because well that's what we expect them to do! But that silence provides a highly unbalanced view of the real situation.

P2 rulez!

2008-05-22T15:58:00.000Z

P2 rulez!

Tiran, a few main differences. You don't have to p...

2008-05-22T14:34:00.000Z

Tiran, a few main differences. You don't have to pick your site, you don't have to pick a mirror, you don't have to click the required button and whatever you install will work.

I tried the same thing with 3.3 (topcasted have a ...

2008-05-22T14:20:00.000Z

I tried the same thing with 3.3 (topcasted have a version of ECore tools that works there).
1. The UM took more than 3 minutes just to come up.

2. There were dependency issues with GMF that could not be properly resolved (I had to install GMF separately, then restart eclipse).

3. The install failed when my connection was dropped, but it got 1/2 installed so I had to disable some features and install again.

4. Then I could install EcoreTools.

Yes, in theory it was the same steps, but this time things just seemed to work! With 3.3 I restarted Eclipse 4 times.

Erm.... Apart from the search window, what exactly...

2008-05-22T08:34:00.000Z

Erm.... Apart from the search window, what exactly is the difference in this from the old Update Manager? The steps are exactly the same.