[eclipse-dev] Best practice how to deal with different target platforms

[Christian Pontesegger <christian.pontesegger@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am wondering how other projects handle different target platforms for 
their projects. If you are not part of the release train, users might 
install your plugins into a wide range of eclipse installations ranging 
from 3.x versions up to the newest neon builds. While it is easy to set 
a minimum target platform, how do you deal with optional features that 
only exist in newer versions of eclipse.

Maybe I will use a simple example:
IToolTipProvider was introduced in .
How would I adapt my basic Label provider to implement that and still 
provide a compatible version with Indigo?
I guess I could use patches or fragments replacing a base version 
working with Juno by an advanced version for Mars. But is this the way 
to go?
How would I put this to update sites? Something like "Advanced 
<myproject> features for Mars"?

I would love to hear how other projects handle these problems.

thanks
Christian