[nebula-dev] Re: one plugin per control

["David J. Orme" <djo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I think that's two +1s; one from Chris and one from me.  Do we have a third committer on board?  What do the rest of you think?


Regards,

Dave Orme

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:09:45 -0500
From: Christopher J Gross <chris.gross@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [nebula-dev] Re: nebula-dev Digest, Vol 9, Issue 17
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I don't have a problem with this.  I don't think we should worry about 
including a src.zip but I'm board with snippets and javadoc.  Most people 
don't care about the source.  Re javadoc, ideally I'd like to include a 
help plugin that added the javadoc to the main Eclipse help.


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I've been thinking about this and I'm still supportive, but don't want to 
lose some of the benefits of how we do things now.

One advantage we have right now is that we provide closer to one-stop 
shopping for people who download our controls. 

What I mean is that inside the download zip, we all provide a JAR for the 
widget itself and a separate JavaDoc directory, all at once.  In 
CompositeTable, I've extended this idea and made my build script also 
include a src.zip and a snippets.zip so that when someone downloads 
CompositeTable, they really have *everything* they need to get started 
with it.  We can get away with this because our controls are really small 
downloads to begin with, so throwing all the documentation, source code, 
and snippets into the distribution makes sense.

If we were to move to one plugin per control, I would still want the 
download file to be a ZIP containing the plugin jar, plus all the stuff it 
currently has (snippets.zip, src.zip, JavaDoc, etc).  There is no reason 
to make our users download five tiny things in order to use a control. One 
download should be sufficient.


Regards,

Dave Orme