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Hi Markus,
On 10/1/2010 11:56 PM, Markus Alexander Kuppe wrote:
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And...I think that the depending upon requires info in features to
create the target platform makes for an undesirably brittle
build...because bundles that are statically in the target platform (e.g.
ECF sdk, or ECF remote services) may be easily and/or appropriately
*not* in the feature.xml.
I do not agree that this creates a brittle build. The metadata has to be
somewhere, either in a TP or in the feature metadata.
Yes I agree it has to go somewhere. The only thing I would add to this
is that dependencies can also be 'assumed' to be present...by being in
the target platform.
I think the only difference between us on this is that I think having
the metadata be in feature.xml creates a potential stability problem
with multi-person development...because
1) feature.xml is likely to be changed relatively frequently (at least
compared to either cspex or a target platform)
2) having meta-data in multiple places (e.g. in feature.xml *and*
cspex...e.g. for optional deps) is confusing and so also could lead to
stability problems
But 'stability problems' is admittedly just a guess about peoples
behavior in the future...which is why we disagree about stability
problems I would guess ;-).
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The build has been fixed [0] by adding a buckminster.cpsex.
Thanks. I'm not married to using the target platform...and so having it
be in buckminster.cspex is OK with me...particularly if it makes you
happy Markus :). But I do think that there are cases where having
non-Eclipse things in the target platform for a build can make
sense...e.g. using/depending upon distinct other frameworks, for
example....perhaps where source is not available or a distinct/released
version is required. I'm pretty sure that Buckminster can create a
target platform flexibly at build time...I just don't know how that can
be done. If there are docs and/or examples in our own build please let
me know.
Again, thanks.
Scott
