Re: [geclipse-dev] Unwanted UI dependencies

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was waiting for several days now, but nothing happend here. No comments. 
Just nothing. Silence. Either this posting wasn't read by anybody, or it has 
been ignored.

Obviously no (well, almost no) changes made it into our M4 which would have 
been the perfect milestone to fix such dependency issues.

So, please, when you read this on Monday: 

Fix it as soon as possible. If your are not sure what to fix, and how to fix 
it, please ask Mathias or me. Many of this problems are caused by a 
dependency to org.eclipse.compare (which should be easy to remove), but some 
plug-ins contain both, UI and core classes mixed in one bundle. In that case 
I suggest 1) below. Again: If unsure, please ask.


Markus


On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Stuempert, Mathias IWR wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I just got a user request to remove the UI dependencies from
> eu.geclipse.core.filesystem and the eu.geclipse.efs.* plug-ins. Yes, you
> got it right, there are indeed dependencies to the UI from these
> plug-ins and even worse eu.geclipse.core itself depends on the UI. I can
> fix eu.geclipse.core until the M4 release on Friday since this is just a
> minor change. Nevertheless it will be more complicated to do the same
> for the efs plug-ins since these plug-ins mix core functionality with ui
> functionality like preference pages and actions. So we need a quick
> decision here!
>
>
>
> I see 2 possibilities:
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> 1)       Create an extra ui plug-in for each efs plug-in, e.g.
> eu.geclipse.efs.gridftp.ui, and move the ui functionality to these
>
> 2)       Incorporate the ui functionalities into the general middleware
> ui plug-ins, e.g. eu.geclipse.globus.ui (BTW, I do not see a
> eu.geclipse.glite.ui?!)
>
>
>
> I would vote for solution 2 since we are doing something similar for the
> core stuff. There we also have several non-ui plug-ins and one ui
> plug-in. So what are the opinions? Especially Markus and Mateusz should
> comment on this (but of course everybody is asked to join the
> discussion). If somehow possible I would like to have these changes in
> the M4!
>
>
>
> Cheers, Mathias