| Curiosity about need for a seperate feature branding plugin [message #319798] |
Fri, 31 August 2007 14:18  |
Eclipse User |
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Hello everyone,
While evolving my Eclipse plug-ins into a product via a feature-based
product configuration, I find myself stumped as to why a feature's branding
information must be specified *outside* the feature plug-in (i.e., what was
the design thinking that resulted in this choice). Some thoughts:
1) Given that a feature requires its own plug-in to define, there is a
ready-made location for such information (about.ini, about.properties, etc.,
etc.)
2) Creating a plug-in that is dedicated to nothing other than providing
branding info to a feature seems quite heavy-weight to me
3) "Piggy-backing" branding information on some other plug-in that is
included in the feature seems, well, a bit kludgy (and could introduce
inconvenient problems down the road if said plug-in was moved from feature A
to feature B).
Any insights as to what the advantages are in the current feature branding
scheme? I'm willing to play by the current rules, but I sure don't
understand where they came from...
-Pete
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| Re: Curiosity about need for a seperate feature branding plugin [message #319848 is a reply to message #319800] |
Tue, 04 September 2007 07:20  |
| Eclipse User |
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Alex -
Thanks for the pointer... I had not encountered any material about
provisioning, although it appears from the dates in this wiki that it is in
its formative stages.
-Pete
"Alex Blewitt" wrote:
>I think that's just the way it worked. Quite possibly, some of the
>feature.xml stuff needs to be downloaded when a site.xml is hit, but before
>any other stuff gets downloaded.
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> In any case, the new provisioning
> (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Category:Provisioning) stuff will ditch
> the old update manager and provide a new mechanism, although it's yet to
> be seen whether features will still make an entrance or if they'll be
> handled by something else.
>
> Alex.
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