| [cross-project-issues-dev] 2019-12: The Eclipse Eierlegende Wollmilchsau |
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For 2019-12, the Eierlegende Wollmilchsau, i.e., the result of
installing all the categorized contributions to the release train,
has evolved from an ugly, though incredibly function-rich beast
(in principle) to something that is dead on arrival. This IDE
won't even start. The fundamental cause of the problem is
unclear. It fails to start because
org.eclipse.core.resources.ResourcesPlugin.start(BundleContext) is
called before the dialog to choose the workspace is
called. That appears to be EMF's fault because it too
(org.eclipse.emf.common.EMFPlugin.OSGiDelegatingBundleActivator.start(BundleContext))
is started before the choose-workspace dialog comes up. But it's
started by the loading of class
org.eclipse.passage.lic.internal.features.migration.FeaturesMigrator.
If I don't include Passage, the Eierlegende Wollmilchsau starts,
but there is still a sea of failures. Note that I'm not singling out Passage for blame because a
"normal" IDE with Passage installed does not run into
this problem. So the problem is some interaction among all these
things. Given the thousands of bundles that are installed and
starting, which if any is the ill-behaved one? Or is it just the
interactions such that no single bundle is actually to blame? Or
did I install something that should not be installed in an IDE? In any case, Eierlegende Wollmilchsau without Passage starts but is not pretty: It's pretty horrible: It's not possible to create a functional Java project in this
IDE, nor even to populate the Package explorer view, perhaps
mostly because of interaction with Object Teams. But again,
Object Teams installed in a "normal" IDE does not cause problems
so I'm not pointing any fingers. Of course no human wants the Eierlegende Wollmilchsau, but the
question is, which combination of things could the user install
that will cause problems like these for otherwise perfectly
functional plugins? There's no way to know and no one is testing
that... One thing is clear though, this problem has gone from bad to
worse. Regards, |
