[hyades-dev] Hyades Features restructuring

[Richard Duggan <rduggan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Currently, there are a total of nine features in Hyades: source, hyades,
logging, models, core, porbekit, test, examples, and test.examples.
Currently, <includes> have been used to create bigger features, but this
has and with continue to cause serviceability problems.  The solution is
use <requires> instead.  The list below is the dependencies among the
existing features

      Feature           Requires
      source            nothing
      logging           emf
      models            logging
      core        models
      probekit    core
      test        core
      example     core
      test.examples     test
      hyades            everything except source


Furthermore, I would like to break the features into a more fine grained
list so that Hyades can be consumed at a more granular level.  Several
products which have committed to consuming hyades, and others that have
expressed an interest, do not wish to pick up the entire Hyades content.
Today is it possible to break apart our existing features into the
following additional features.
      Feature                 Requires
      test.manual       test
      test.junit              test
      test.http               test.junit
      test.examples.manual    test.manual
      test.example.junit      test.junit
      test.examples.http      test.http
      probekit.examples probekit
      profiling               core
      profiling.examples      profiling
      logging.examples  logging
      gla               core


One of the biggest unknowns yet is how do we handle NL content.  Do these
plugin fragments get packaged as part of the feature or as a separate
feature?  If they are a separate feature, they need to correspond 1-1 with
a functional feature.  I will see what I can find out about how the base
handles this.

I would appreciate any feedback on this before we move forward.

Richard K. Duggan
Problem Determination Enablement
IBM Toronto Laboratory
External: 905-413-2396
Internal: 969-2396