Re: [ecf-dev] optional dependencies

[Remy Suen <remysuen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The upshot is that we have a bundle (i.e. org.eclipse.ecf.provider.irc) that
> uses 'resolution:=optional' and curre==ntly we seem to be generating the old
> default of 'greedy=true'. I'm not sure whether this is because
>
> a) we want want it this way...i.e. we want the dependencies to be greedily
> resolved for these optional deps (manifest below)
> b) this is because we are using the old default for p2 (i.e. the default
> prior to 3.8M1 I think)

In the case of A anyway, I feel it is okay to to not greedily require the datashare bundles in this scenario.

> I *think* that it was Remy who
> added this optional dependency...

And yes, it was me. :)

Regards,
Remy

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Remy Suen
Eclipse Platform UI Committer
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