RE: [eclipse-dev] Fragments and extensions

[Dorian Birsan <birsan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/02/2005
08:38:38 PM:

> Dejan Glozic wrote:
> > Why are you using fragments? Fragments were originally design
for
> delivering NL data, 
> > and also for supplying platform-specific code related to the
> referenced plug-in. 
> 
> Thanks for the response!
> 
> In this case, the functionality to be delivered (annotation processing)
> is an enhancement to Java compilation, but can only run in a 1.5 VM.
 So
> it is precisely a platform specificity issue.  

This may require eclipse to support another environment
attribute, "vm", 
in addition to the existing "os", "nl",
"arch" and "ws".

> 
> It is certainly an option to deliver the functionality as a full plugin
> rather than a fragment; or, to expose the necessary extension point
from
> o.e.jdt.core itself rather than from "fragment A".  In
fact, I'm not
> even certain yet which option is the most architecturally appropriate.
> But I'd at least like to know how to do it with fragments, if it is
> possible.
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