Re: [wtp-dev] Eclipse 3.1.1 & WTP 1.5

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aside from the navigator, that's been
mentioned already, there's other things in the 3.2 stream that we in WTP
will need or want to move to . Tabbed property pages, improved exclusion
filters, and (I think maybe) some subtle changes in EMF, some improvements
in document threading, improvements in undo management. And .. I'm sure
even other things I'm not even aware of. 

Bluntly put, the problem with "minimizing
the dependancy" and maintaining compatibility is that it takes extra
work. Investigation if even feasible, if so implementations of "bridges",
not to mention it would at least doubling the testing effort. 

Because of that extra cost, I don't
think we (in the core of WTP) are motivated to pursue.  We realize
this may cause some to investigate the trade-off of staying on 3.1/wtp
1.0 or migrating to 3.2/wtp 1.5 .. but .. I dont' think there's a "business
case" for us changing our current plan. Of course, As Arthur implied
in another post, others are most welcome to investigate, write bridges,
and do the extra testing. We certainly wouldn't "stand in the way"
of that sort of effort (that is, we'd investigate bug reports/patches that
made it easier for others to do), but there's only so much work we can
contain. 

Marshall, I would be interested in the
motivation and specficis for your question ... I assume the timing or life
cycle of jboss ide? Are there technical reasons of not moving forward on
to 3.2/wtp 1.5? 

BTW, if there are specific component-features
you need to be compatible with 3.1, such as the server features, you might
want to investigate that specific requirement, since server features are
sort of isolated, and likely not impacted as much by the 3.1/3.2 differences.
But .. I suspect it would be you that would have to do the investigation
... I have enough trouble getting our server committers to do smoke tests
:). 

All that said, certainly N-1 or N-2
backwards compatibility is our long term goal and philosopy .. but ...
I personally do not thing we can afford that extra work this release. 

Thanks for your continued support.

Marshall Culpepper <marshall.culpepper@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject	[wtp-dev] Eclipse 3.1.1 & WTP 1.5

Hey everyone... I read the thread about a month back mentioning
the fact that WTP 1.5 will be solely based on Eclipse 3.2. I was curious
what components are requiring what functionality of Eclipse 3.2, and if
it was at all possible to minimize that dependency. 

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