I have to admit I’m surprised by the numbering. Calling it 4.0
signals that it’s ready to deploy into product. Are you saying it’s ready for
that? Or should it be called something like a super-milestone, or preview, or
alpha?
Doug.
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Subject: [eclipse-dev] Re: [e4-dev] Eclipse Project 4.0 Release
This is very exciting, thanks
for the update John!
I have two questions about this.
First, have any of the Eclipse 3.x platform bundles changed in the 4.0
SDK? If they have, what version numbers (and update descriptors) are they
using? I'm wondering if we can install Helios and "upgrade" to
the 4.0 SDK, and then use the 3.x update sites for the PDE/JDT/Platform
updates? Or, once you go to the 4.0 SDK will you be required to use the
4.0 update sites for everything? -- Maybe it's a little too early to try
this yet.
Secondly, what should we (Eclipse committers) be telling people about Eclipse
4.0? Obviously there are lots of people who simply use Eclipse as their
IDE of choice. Are the plans to produce EPP packages for Eclipse
4.0? I imagine that when we release Eclipse 3.6 and a month later release
Eclipse 4.0, there will be some confusion among users regarding what version
they should use. From what I can tell, it appears that there will be very
few "end user features" in Eclipse 4.0. However, I don't want
to discourage people from using it if it's the intended upgrade path (Install
3.6 and upgrade to 4.0 in July).
Again, this is awesome! I'm been following the e4 lists for at least 2
years now and it's really exciting to see all this work come together.
Congratulations to everyone involved.
cheers,
ian
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:59 AM, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For the past
eight months we have been working towards a July 2010 release tentatively
called the e4 1.0 release. One of the major goals of this release was to bring
the e4 technology delivered in our July 2009 "0.9" release up to a
level of maturity and stability that we could run the Eclipse platform and its
ecosystem of plug-ins on top of it. As a community we have been referring to
this combination of the existing Eclipse platform with e4 technology as
"Eclipse 4.0".
Last week we
began building the full Eclipse 4.0 SDK, and delivered it as part of our M5
milestone. This build combines some e4 components, the e4 compatibility layer,
and the Eclipse project 3.6 SDK. With this milestone it is time to switch
emphasis from incubating e4 work to focus on graduating, polishing, and
delivering this Eclipse 4.0 SDK. Since this combined release incorporates
plug-ins from several Eclipse sub-projects, it would be incorrect to call it an
e4 release. To reflect this reality, and our primary emphasis on the Eclipse
4.0 SDK deliverable, the Eclipse project PMC has decided to take the following
steps:
- We will no
longer refer to the "e4 1.0 release" in our plans and downloads after
M5. We will instead call our July 2010 release the "Eclipse SDK 4.0"
release. This deliverable will combine components from the Eclipse Platform,
JDT, PDE, Equinox, ECF, and EMF out of the Helios release, with the e4
components required to build the Eclipse 4.0 SDK.
- CSS Styling,
Modeled Workbench, and some of the core e4 programming model infrastructure
have matured in e4 and will move into the Eclipse Platform project prior to the
July release. This new technology allows building the Eclipse 4.0 SDK on top of
it, which thus only depends on graduated components.
- e4 _javascript_
tooling has been moved to the JSDT project under the Webtools top-level
project.
- Other
components such as SWT Browser Edition, _javascript_ modularity, XWT, Toolkit
Model, Bespin Server, and the new e4 resources work around semantic file
systems are going to remain in the e4 incubator for now. These components have
not reached the level of stability and community required for graduation into a
mature project. We will continue to evaluate whether more components should
graduate either in this release or later releases, based on their progress and
adoption.
- The e4
components that remain in the incubator will release simultaneously with the
Eclipse top-level project's 4.0 release, and will be available in a separate
release repository, much like the Helios repository and EPP packages
incorporate both incubating and mature components in a single release. Since we
intend to keep the e4 project as a perpetual incubator, it doesn't make sense
to attach a traditional version number to the incubating e4 portion of the
release. Where necessary, we will refer to the e4 incubator portion as the
"e4 July 2010" downloads (for example on the e4 downloads page).
Version numbers of individual e4 plug-ins will evolve according to the Eclipse
project's standard version numbering guidelines.
- We will
continue running e4 incubator builds throughout the July 2010 release cycle
(and beyond). In addition we will run Eclipse project 4.0 stream builds. Until
the Eclipse project Helios release is completed, we will run these 4.0 stream
builds out of the "R4_HEAD" branch of the Eclipse project repository.
Note that the vast majority of plug-ins don't require branching, and will be
consumed directly from the "R3.6" version tag produced by the Helios
release.
A draft plan of
the Eclipse Project 4.0 release is now available [1]. This plan is quite
similar to our previous e4 plan, with the same milestones and timeline, and
most of the same plan items.
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_0.xml
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