Re: [ecf-dev] An ECF feature for the platform?

[Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It turns out that Andrew N. raised other concerns over out ability to require plug-ins instead of including them wrt to PDE Build and ppl building applications.
As such we will be continuing to include the ECF bundles in the p2 feature for 3.4.

PaScaL

Scott Lewis ---05/15/2008 02:01:39 PM---Pascal Rapicault wrote:

From:	Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:	"Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) developer mailing list." <ecf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	05/15/2008 02:01 PM
Subject:	Re: [ecf-dev] An ECF feature for the platform?

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Pascal Rapicault wrote:
>
> I think what I want is another feature let's say org.eclipse.ecf.base 
> that is included by the current org.eclipse.ecf.core feature.
> And the p2 feature would require it.
> I would also want it to be built by ECF as part of the regular build 
> and we would use it as-is in our build.
>
> If you want I can create the feature.
>

Such a base feature is easily enough created...I've already created it 
in /cvsroot/technology/ecf/features/org.eclipse.ecf.base-feature

>
> Is your build PDE build based?
>

Yes, it is...but we've got some custom scripts in there to use 
cruisecontrol, create update site, do signing, etc., etc. that is 
sensitive to features.  Also, Ted (who has been doing the build heavy 
lifting) and I have been going to some trouble to get our build creating 
a p2 integration build, along with a 3.4-compatible build (that leaves 
out the six ECF plugins that are now in platform), and a 3.3 compatible 
build (that includes these six, since they are obviously not in 3.3 sdk).

So I don't think we could do this immediately (i.e. before next Monday's 
integration build), although perhaps with some nice words (or $$ even 
better :) from Equinox/IBM/Pascal/p2 we could do it.  But it causes us 
significant churn at a time...i.e. Ganymede approaching...reviews, etc. 
when we want to buckle down and get things more fully tested with 
automating our test suite, etc with our existing build.

Maybe we should have a phone or Skype chat about this Pascal.

Scott


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> PaScaL
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> Inactive hide details for Scott Lewis ---05/15/2008 10:46:36 AM---Hi 
> Pascal,Scott Lewis ---05/15/2008 10:46:36 AM---Hi Pascal,
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> Hi Pascal,
>
> So let me make sure I understand:
>
> 1) You would like an ECF feature that has only the (currently) six
> plugins that the Platform is using (those that p2 uses)
> 2) Would you want us to build this feature (as we have been) and produce
> jars, or would it be built from source by the Platform?
>
> 1 is easy to do and can be done very quickly.  2 would take some more
> time/resources, because we've got lots of other pre-Ganymede things to
> do for the project with few/no people to do them.
>
> Scott
>
>
> Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Our attempt at requiring the ECF plug-ins instead of including them
> > have caused problems in update manager
> > (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=225783)
> > Therefore we would like to know if you guys could create an ECF core
> > feature containing the minimal set of plug-ins needed by p2 that the
> > platform would *require*, thus giving you the ability to change the
> > bits of ECF used by the platform.
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > PaScaL
> >
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