Re: [cdt-dev] Including codan feature instead of codan plugins

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for clarifying, it makes sense to me now.

So, in cases like these, should we moved old plugins to a special place to indicate they are not being used?
Assuming we don't want to remove them completely. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Schaefer, Doug
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:18 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Including codan feature instead of 
> codan plugins
> 
> It's all about ensuring flexibility for adopters, to allow 
> for a CDT that doesn't integrate with the gnu tool chains. 
> Then we had the CDI versus DSF wars :) and had to make them 
> optional. There's a lot of history but features are low 
> overhead once they're added to the build scripts.
> 
> BTW, the codan feature isn't even built any more.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Marc Khouzam
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:05 PM
> > To: CDT General developers list.
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Including codan feature instead of 
> codan plugins
> > 
> > >The existing codan feature is a relic of the past. The 
> original intention was to
> > remove it after the 8.0 release.
> > 
> > Oh, ok.
> > Is there a reason why some parts of CDT have features and 
> others do not?
> > gnu.build, gnu.dsf, gnu.gdb are all features but they are 
> not optional.
> > ________________________________________
> > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Sergey Prigogin [eclipse.sprigogin@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: July 26, 2011 10:58 PM
> > To: CDT General developers list.
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Including codan feature instead of 
> codan plugins
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Marc Khouzam
> > <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > wrote:
> > > What would be the advantage of having the codan feature?
> > 
> > There is already a codan feature 
> (org.eclipse.cdt.codan-feature) which lists all
> > the codan plugins.
> > I just thought it would make more sense to include that 
> feature in the cdt-
> > feature, instead of duplicating the list of plugins in 
> platform-feature.
> > 
> > The existing codan feature is a relic of the past. The 
> original intention was to
> > remove it after the 8.0 release.
> > 
> > -sergey
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > From: 
> cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>] On
> > Behalf Of Sergey Prigogin
> > [eclipse.sprigogin@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:eclipse.sprigogin@xxxxxxxxx>]
> > Sent: July 26, 2011 10:28 PM
> > To: CDT General developers list.
> > Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Including codan feature instead of 
> codan plugins
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Marc Khouzam
> > <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx><mailt
> > o:marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>>
> > wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm looking at
> >  releng/org.eclipse.cdt-feature/feature.xml
> > and
> >  releng/org.eclipse.cdt.platform-feature/feature.xml
> > 
> > From what I can see, cdt-feature contains a list of all 
> other features, while
> > platform-feature contains a list of the plugins that don't 
> have their own
> > feature.
> > 
> > So, I was thinking that instead of putting the Codan 
> plugins in platform-
> > feature, we should put the codan-feature in the cdt-feature.
> > 
> > What would be the advantage of having the codan feature?
> > 
> > But I'm new to this stuff.
> > Does it make sense?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Marc
> > 
> > -sergey
> > 
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