Re: [e4-dev] Migrate the e4 spies to PDE

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will bring this topic to the PMC after the summer vacation. Related
bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=498252

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Jonas Helming
<jonas.helming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> personally, I think the spies are rather targeted for RCP (Eclipse 4
> Application Platform) developers, as most IDE plugin developers still use
> the 3.x API.
> Therefore, I would find it a little more consistent to move them to the same
> place as the model editor, which is platform.
> Also the people working on this, are probably very overlapping with the
> people working on the model editor and at least the model spy also directly
> uses the model editor.
> However, I do not have a strong opinion about this and I am also fine with
> moving it to PDE, as it is somehow "advanced tooling".
>
> Best regards
>
> Jonas
>
>
>
> On 03.06.2016 16:30, Lars Vogel wrote:
>
> +1 to what Mickael said
>
> Am 03.06.2016 4:28 nachm. schrieb "Mickael Istria" <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> On 06/03/2016 04:25 PM, Brian de Alwis wrote:
>>
>> Why PDE instead of Platform/Tools, where we put the Model Editor &
>> friends?
>>
>> I'd say it's mostly a matter of target. Despite Model Editor *might* be
>> useful for plain users, those spies only target plugin developers AFAIK, to
>> they're most consistent being part of PDE.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Mickael Istria
>> Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat
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