Description Marc-André Laperle 2015-11-04 23:27:27 EST

It would be great if it was possible to use the Sleak and Spy tools independently from the rest of the tools plugin. For example, we could add those tools in our target definitions and use them in the runtime Eclipse. Right now, depending on swt.tools means depending on JDT which our project does not use.
So my suggesting is splitting the swt.tools plugin this way:
-org.eclipse.swt.tools.sleak : Contains Sleak view and related code
-org.eclipse.swt.tools.spy : Contains Spy view and related code
-org.eclipse.swt.tools.base : Adds the SWT Tools category. All swt.tools.* depends on this to be able to add their respective views to the category
-org.eclipse.swt.tools : Same plugin as today except the Sleak view and Spy view are removed. JNIGen, Ant build, etc are left untouched.

tools.base, tools.spy, tools.sleak are reexported in swt.tools to ensure maximum backwards compatilbity.
org.eclipse.swt.tools.feature includes all the swt.tools.* plugins.

More things could be split off from swt.tools later as necessary.

I have a patch underway for this. Let me know if you have any other suggestions or concern.