Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Eclipse Platform to prefer use of depende

[Christoph Läubrich <laeubi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Might this approach be a problem for projects with very
> low Java target level?

Is this relevant given that platform already requires Java 11?

> would be required to use a recent version of Tycho, but that might not
> support building the old Java EE levels anymore.

New features require new version correct, but it should not be an issue 
see above, anyways I'm currently working in fixing a bug [1] for 
compiling java 8 with and tycho has a integration-test for compiling 
with an java 8 jdk so if 'old Java EE levels' not means JSE1.4 or 
something...

> Also everyone using the Target Platform Definition language *.tpd
> might be out, since that tooling cannot generate the new syntax
> I believe.

There is an open issue  [2]for that but it has not gotten much attention 
yet.

> but if you have ever managed targets with 1500 plugins you really
> don't want to go back from such a component based approach, towards
> a single file

From 2022-03 on PDE supports references of other target files [3], so 
you could either use this directly, or have one "main" target with maven 
deps, that includes another that is generated by the TPD files.


[1] https://github.com/eclipse/tycho/issues/51
[2] https://github.com/eclipse-cbi/targetplatform-dsl/issues/115
[3] https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.23/pde.php#pde-editor-include


Am 05.04.22 um 20:46 schrieb Michael Keppler:
> Might this approach be a problem for projects with very low Java target
> level? From my understanding, to be able to use that mechanism they
> would be required to use a recent version of Tycho, but that might not
> support building the old Java EE levels anymore.
>
> Also everyone using the Target Platform Definition language *.tpd might
> be out, since that tooling cannot generate the new syntax I believe.
> https://github.com/eclipse-cbi/targetplatform-dsl. Of course everyone
> using TPD can just maintain .target files instead, but if you have ever
> managed targets with 1500 plugins, you really don't want to go back from
> such a component based approach, towards a single file, without comments
> etc.
>
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