Re: [ecf-dev] New features for remote services distributions

[Markus Alexander Kuppe <ecf-dev_eclipse.org@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/12/2010 03:37 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:
> Hi Markus and Wim,
> 
> Markus Alexander Kuppe wrote:
>> On 03/12/2010 03:15 PM, Wim Jongman wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi Scott,
>>>
>>> Looks good. Is there no core feature?     
>>
>> What would be part of the core feature?
>>   
> 
> My answer to this would be org.eclipse.ecf and org.eclipse.ecf.identity
> bundles...but the reason there isn't an explicit ECF feature for these
> bundles is that they are included in both the Equinox SDK and the
> Eclipse platform...because of p2.  As well, we now have a 'featurepatch'
> feature that allows these bundles to be updated if they are already there.
> 
> So in essence, I don't think we really need a core feature, distinct
> from the Equinox SDK (or Eclipse)...and the patch feature.  I'm not at
> all closed to it, and it would be completely fine with me to have one,
> but I just didn't see the need.

Well, there is still the use case that consumers install ECF into non
Equinox/SDK targets. OTOH a core feature has no real use case in its own
except that it would allow us easier dependency management.

Markus