Re: [stellation-res] Downloads area reorganized: libraries required ...

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:11 AM 12/6/2002, Dave Shields wrote:
> By the way, I am able to compile to core without postgres jdbc.jar in the 
> classpath.
> Could you check that you can compile Eclipse stuff without this jar? If 
> so, we can
> delete the entry for postgres jar from the downloads section.

Dave,

I just checked building and running the Eclipse client.

The Eclipse client can build without the Postgres JDBC driver jar on the
classpath.

However, I do most of my testing with a local PostgreSQL database hosting the
Stellation repo, and others probably do as well.
Under these circumstances, the Eclipse client will not _run_ without having
the Postgres JDBC driver (jar) on the runtime classpath; the easiest way to
do this is to wrap the JDBC driver inside an Eclipse library-only plugin
(org.postgresql) and to specify that plugin as a required plugin for the
...stellation.scm.model plugin.

So, the org.postgresql plugin needs to remain part of the "Installable
Eclipse Feature" package.  I think we might as well leave the PostgreSQL
JDBC Driver available as an "Individual Library" jar file on the Downloads
page; it may be useful for others working on Stellation plugins (althrough
they could also get the jar by downloading/installing the Feature package).

- Jim
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