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Develop multiple versions of a plugin at once [message #305944]

Mon, 17 July 2006 05:30

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: contact.noelios.com

I'm developing two versions of the same plugin at the same time: A1 and
A2. Also A1 depends on another plugin B1 and A2 depends on the same
plugin, but a latter version: B2.

When I have all four plugins open at the same time in Eclipse 3.2, it
seems that the classpath entries overlap and conflict. I have to close
A1 and B1 if I want to work on A2 and B2, or the other way around.

It there a solution to this problem? If not, could this be directly
supported in the future?

Thanks,
Jerome

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Re: Develop multiple versions of a plugin at once [message #305986 is a reply to message #305944]

Mon, 17 July 2006 10:44

Eclipse User

seems you have to change plugin id as a temp hack to make that works.

Sunny Sun

"Jerome Louvel" <contact@noelios.com>
??????:e9flav$7df$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> I'm developing two versions of the same plugin at the same time: A1 and
> A2. Also A1 depends on another plugin B1 and A2 depends on the same
> plugin, but a latter version: B2.
>
> When I have all four plugins open at the same time in Eclipse 3.2, it
> seems that the classpath entries overlap and conflict. I have to close A1
> and B1 if I want to work on A2 and B2, or the other way around.
>
> It there a solution to this problem? If not, could this be directly
> supported in the future?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerome
>
> --
> Restlet, a REST framework for Java
> http://www.restlet.org

Re: Develop multiple versions of a plugin at once [message #306005 is a reply to message #305944]

Mon, 17 July 2006 19:32

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

"Jerome Louvel" <contact@noelios.com> wrote in message
news:e9flav$7df$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> I'm developing two versions of the same plugin at the same time: A1 and
> A2. Also A1 depends on another plugin B1 and A2 depends on the same
> plugin, but a latter version: B2.

Why not use multiple workspaces?

Re: Develop multiple versions of a plugin at once [message #306048 is a reply to message #305986]

Wed, 19 July 2006 03:19

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: contact.noelios.com

Thanks Sunny, that's a good workaround. It is even used by Eclipse IDE
to deal with the two versions of JUnit (3.8 and 4.1).

Jerome

sunnyawake wrote :
> seems you have to change plugin id as a temp hack to make that works.
>
> Sunny Sun
>
> "Jerome Louvel" <contact@noelios.com>
> ??????:e9flav$7df$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>> I'm developing two versions of the same plugin at the same time: A1 and
>> A2. Also A1 depends on another plugin B1 and A2 depends on the same
>> plugin, but a latter version: B2.
>>
>> When I have all four plugins open at the same time in Eclipse 3.2, it
>> seems that the classpath entries overlap and conflict. I have to close A1
>> and B1 if I want to work on A2 and B2, or the other way around.
>>
>> It there a solution to this problem? If not, could this be directly
>> supported in the future?

Re: Develop multiple versions of a plugin at once [message #306049 is a reply to message #306005]

Wed, 19 July 2006 03:22

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: contact.noelios.com

Walter Harley wrote :
> "Jerome Louvel" <contact@noelios.com> wrote in message
> news:e9flav$7df$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>> I'm developing two versions of the same plugin at the same time: A1 and
>> A2. Also A1 depends on another plugin B1 and A2 depends on the same
>> plugin, but a latter version: B2.
>
> Why not use multiple workspaces?

Because I really need to quickly switch from one plugin version to the
other. I have other plugins that can use any available version, A1 or A2.

Idieally, I would like Eclipse to use the dependency constraints based
on min/max versions to use the best plugin. Unfortunately, this version
resolution seems to be only supported at runtime.

Jerome

Re: Develop multiple versions of a plugin at once [message #306050 is a reply to message #305944]

Wed, 19 July 2006 03:28

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: contact.noelios.com

I've just enter a related bug report:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=151044

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