[ecf-dev] Eclipse M6 and and ECF

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

As you may already know, the Eclipse Milestone 6 (M6) just happened 
today (Monday).  A major part of this milestone was the inclusion of the 
the p2 project code (the new Eclipse install/update mechanism).  ECF 
has/is supporting the p2 project, and consequently there are now 4 ECF 
plugins that are included in Eclipse Platform:

org.eclipse.ecf
org.eclipse.ecf.identity
org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer
org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer

One unintended consequence of p2, is that with these four ECF bundles in 
the platform, the existing ECF update site will not work (with M6+). 
The reason for this is that because the four ECF bundles listed above 
are in the SDK, they are considered part of the platform by p2, and so 
update sites (including ours) are not allowed (by p2 policy) to update 
platform bundles.  So if you try to install even a more recent version 
of ECF on M6, it won't let these four bundles be installed.

As a workaround, Ted Kubaska and I have added to the ECF build to 
produce an update site specifically for Eclipse M6/p2 that removes these 
four ECF bundles from the ECF core feature(since they are already in the 
M6 platform).  As soon as we can (probably sometime Tuesday) we will 
make this update site available on the ECF download page, along with the 
update site for Eclipse 3.3->3.4M5.  That way, people that are using 
Eclipse 3.3 or 3.4 up to M5 can get/run ECF via the existing update 
site, and those running 3.4M6 can get the other parts of ECF.

So an update site for 3.4M6 will be available on the download page 
tomorrow, Tuesday, April 1.

Also, ECF's own M6 will be available one week from today, Monday April 
7th, as ECF's M6 occurs one week (+1) after platform.

Thanks.

Scott