Re: [e4-dev] Dependency Preference and Versioning

[Alex Fitzpatrick <agfitzp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed, you can bet my team won't be
updating our 150+ plug-ins anytime soon, if it ain't broke we don't fix.


If you really want to see people migrate
you need to provide a braindead-simple migration path. 

Ideally a PDE warning marker on the
manifest and a quick-fix as well as new UI in the manifest editor. (A "Do
The Right Thing" button...)


-- 
Alex Fitzpatrick
agfitzp@xxxxxxxxxx
Software Developer - Rational UML Modeling

From:	Alessandro Mottadelli <amottadelli@xxxxxxxx>
To:	E4 Project developer mailing list <e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	2009-01-16 10:36 AM
Subject:	Re: [e4-dev] Dependency Preference and Versioning

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Jeff McAffer ha scritto:
> People who use Require-Bundle are doing so at risk of having to change
> their manifests later if packages move.  We had all manner of
> "facading" going on in the 3.0 timeframe because Require-Bundle
is all 
> you had before then.  That was 5 years ago.  Would be great
if we got 
> with the program and started supporting/using Import-Package more.
>
A lot of people is still using Require-Bundle. It is simpler.
IMHO to make Import-Package more popular, a better eclipse support could
be useful..... for example eclipse could convert from Require-Bundle to
Import-Package and viceversa automatically on request.... or 
auto-maintain the list of imported packages with minimal user 
intervention....

Regards,
Sandro

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