Hi.
Why does it matter if the XML Editor is under the WTP top-level project. It is available as a separate feature, so all EPP packages can include it.
It would be fine if WTP took full responsibility for it and promoted it as the Eclipse XML editor and ensure EPP packages were using it, and all users knew about it. And if that’s happening then there really isn’t much of an issue.
CDT is as guilty of doing things like this. We have lots of features that the Platform (and JRE for that matter) didn’t provide that we know our users and adopters do so we built them. But don’t tell anyone else about them even though lots of them would
be useful to other stacks.
Which comes back to the web presence issue we were talking about. I don’t want a better CDT web site, I want a better Eclipse IDE web site. And, yes, we would have a section showing off the features for C++ developers but as we try to do in the UI, we
don’t need to mention the CDT project. That’s not where they start.
When you go to the IntelliJ site, you don’t see features organized by the teams that built them.