RE: [ecf-dev] Eclipse M6 and and ECF

["Jeff McAffer" <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting.  I didn't see this coming.  What is the longer term solution
here?  ECF should be whole and consistent regardless of what we happen to
include in the SDK.  p2 will help with this somewhat but not completely.
Perhaps we should make a ECF core (whatever) feature and then the platform
can consume that?

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ecf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Scott Lewis
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 6:13 PM
> To: Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) developer mailing list.
> Subject: [ecf-dev] Eclipse M6 and and ECF
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> As you may already know, the Eclipse Milestone 6 (M6) just happened
> today (Monday).  A major part of this milestone was the inclusion of
> the
> the p2 project code (the new Eclipse install/update mechanism).  ECF
> has/is supporting the p2 project, and consequently there are now 4 ECF
> plugins that are included in Eclipse Platform:
> 
> org.eclipse.ecf
> org.eclipse.ecf.identity
> org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer
> org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer
> 
> One unintended consequence of p2, is that with these four ECF bundles
> in
> the platform, the existing ECF update site will not work (with M6+).
> The reason for this is that because the four ECF bundles listed above
> are in the SDK, they are considered part of the platform by p2, and so
> update sites (including ours) are not allowed (by p2 policy) to update
> platform bundles.  So if you try to install even a more recent version
> of ECF on M6, it won't let these four bundles be installed.
> 
> As a workaround, Ted Kubaska and I have added to the ECF build to
> produce an update site specifically for Eclipse M6/p2 that removes
> these
> four ECF bundles from the ECF core feature(since they are already in
> the
> M6 platform).  As soon as we can (probably sometime Tuesday) we will
> make this update site available on the ECF download page, along with
> the
> update site for Eclipse 3.3->3.4M5.  That way, people that are using
> Eclipse 3.3 or 3.4 up to M5 can get/run ECF via the existing update
> site, and those running 3.4M6 can get the other parts of ECF.
> 
> So an update site for 3.4M6 will be available on the download page
> tomorrow, Tuesday, April 1.
> 
> Also, ECF's own M6 will be available one week from today, Monday April
> 7th, as ECF's M6 occurs one week (+1) after platform.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> 
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