Re: [e4-dev] e4 target platform

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Patrick Paulin<patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm starting to work with e4 from the perspective of an RCP developer, and
> I'm also looking at writing tutorials to help other developers get started.
>
> One of the first thing I tried to do was set up a target platform for my e4
> work, and I'm not having much luck. Is there a particular feature or set of
> features that can serve as a target platform for e4 work? Ideally, what I
> would like to see is a single option on the e4 repo that developers could
> select to get a fully-functional target platform. Is that a possibility?

Depends on what you want in your e4 target platform.  For example,
http://download.eclipse.org/e4/downloads/drops/R-0.9-200907291930/repository/
provides an HTML list of features.

The modeled workbench is provided in org.eclipse.e4.ui.feature (and
matching source feature) ... the CSS stuff in
org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.feature.  But then there's XWT, Toolkit Model,
the Flexible Resource work, OSGi+Programming Language support, the
Bespin server plus a few others.

org.eclipse.e4.sdk.runtime.feature is the highest level e4 feature
that includes all of the working bits of e4 (and you could install to
make a target platform).  It has a matching source feature that you
would need for development.  Unless I hear otherwise, I would imaging
the e4 sdk runtime feature is the e4 target platform.

The caveat:  It includes the compatibility layer, so while it is our
e4 target platform (as someone that has to support compatibility with
3.x) for someone that would like to develop small "pure" e4 RCP apps,
you wouldn't want it installed into your running eclipse (it wouldn't
actually matter for the RCP app, though).

Later,
PW

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Paul Webster
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