Re: [eclipse-pmc] Build on the plan

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

 That is sound great. Thanks Darin

 regards,
 Eugene


Darin Wright wrote:
> Hi Eugene,
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> It is a longer term goal for PDE to support multiple target platforms in 
> the workspace similar to multiple JREs. First we need to design/implement 
> flexible and robust ways to define, manipulate, and share target plaform 
> definitions. Then we need to ensure that an implementation supporting 
> multiple target definitions can perform acceptably (mostly memory 
> footprint issues).
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> It is our plan to work towards this - but we're not committing to this in 
> 3.5.
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> Darin 
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> Darin Wright wrote:
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> > * Support multiple target platform definitions in the workspace, with one active target platform that workspace projects are compiled against (preference page with check box for active target)
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>   Darin, can you please clarify why use case for specifying target 
> platform per-project is not being considered? Eg. you can specify Java 
> runtime per project, but why not the target platform?
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>   Currently it is really painful to develop code that need to work on 
> more then one version of Eclipse Platform or if it uses conflicting API 
> from non-Platfrom projects, such as Mylyn (which had changed its API 3 
> times in last year and a half, from 1.0 to 3.0 now).
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>   Thanks
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>   Eugene
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