[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-3085) Should we be able to update JBDS 8.0.0.GA -> 8.1.0.Alpha1 via Early Access?

[Martin Malina (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3085?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12984630#comment-12984630 ] 

Martin Malina commented on JBDS-3085:
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Nick said:
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Has anyone ever tried to update from Windows 7 to 8 on the same machine? Or to do an OSX upgrade w/o problems happening? (Admittedly Fedora upgrades DO work, as long as you don't wait too long ... I can't upgrade F16 any more because it's not on the servers.)
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I wouldn't trust upgrading Windows works smoothly. But upgrading OS X is usually pain free. I once tried to update Fedora X to X+2 (17 to 19 perhaps) and it failed and I was left with a broken system and had to reinstall completely. But all of this is quite off-topic ;)

I think in the past we never really supported upgrades where the underlying Eclipse would need to upgrade as well (e.g. Indigo to Juno). We can try that when a build of JBDS 8.1 is available (assuming there is a JBDS 8.1) and see what happens.

> Should we be able to update JBDS 8.0.0.GA -> 8.1.0.Alpha1 via Early Access?
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>
>                 Key: JBDS-3085
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3085
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: updatesite
>            Reporter: Nick Boldt
>            Assignee: Max Rydahl Andersen
>         Attachments: 128_jbds_icon_beta.png, splash_beta.png
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> Max brought up a question on a call today:
> *Should we be able to update JBDS 8.0.0.GA -> 8.1.0.Alpha1 via Early Access?*
> This was supposedly in the original scope for the creation of a Early Access site, but I never saw that. So, in order to get some eyeballs on this idea, and to get buy-in from QE/doc/dev/PM/PgM/PL, I'm cc:'ing some people here so we can discuss the cons and cons of this idea.
> cc: [~mmusaji] [~mmurray] [~mmalina] [~maxandersen] [~mickael_istria][~ldimaggio] [~burrsutter] [~jpallich] [~rruss] [~fbricon]
> (Aside: has anyone noticed that there's an plethora of people with "M" names on this team?)
> Things to consider:
> a) what happens if an 8.0.0.GA user suddenly finds they've updated to an Alpha or Beta release? Can they uninstall? (Probably not, if they started with the installer; probably yes if they started from BYOE / Marketplace.)
> b) how will GSS support these "I was on GA but not I'm on Beta" users?
> c) What about project examples that might / might not be compatible between 8.0 and 8.x, eg., because of changes in Eclipse Luna or a new default runtime (EAP 6.3, 6.4) ?
> d) what could possibly go wrong?



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