[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-3073) use installMode="root" for top-level JBDS "Core Features" feature

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBDS-3073:
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In general, I'm not sure it's a good idea to use installMode="root" for JBDS. We'd rather have users updating the whole JBDS than just the included feature.
I'd hope that Check for Update would update product, or that partial updates would show a remediation page suggesting to update the whole product.

> use installMode="root" for top-level JBDS "Core Features" feature
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>
>                 Key: JBDS-3073
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3073
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: installer
>    Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Beta2
>            Reporter: Nick Boldt
>            Assignee: Nick Boldt
>             Fix For: 8.0.0.Beta3
>
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> To better support the BYOE scenario and be more easily able to update pieces of JBDS w/o having to update the product, we could consider adding `installMode="root"` to the JBDS "Core Features" feature so it can be installed in parallel to the JBDS "Branded Product" feature, rather than as its child [1].
> [1] http://codeandme.blogspot.fr/2014/06/tycho-11-install-root-level-features.html
> We could further do this with other JBDS/JBT child features, but I suspect we *don't want to do that* as it would allow users to update *individual parts piecemeal*, rather than as one big update.



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