[epp-dev] Re: changes in org.eclipse.mylyn.ide_feature

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 23 May 2008, Mik Kersten wrote:
> I'm not sure how the "latest" thing works, but that sounds right to me. 
> Steffen should be online within a couple of hours.  I've attached our .sc
> file for your reference.  The change boils down the fact that we now have a
> team feature that does not require the SDK and can be included in the
> packages listed.

"latest" => browse the available update sites and use the feature with the 
highest available version number.

All packages have their configuration updated and the last builds look good.

> Btw, we got stuck on trying to get the org.eclipse.ui.views.log plug-in
> into the Java package, because the SDK does not provide a reusable feature
> with it.  The best solution we came up with is to include this in our own
> feature and redistribute it.  We have that working, but don't won't proceed
> until we have input from cross-projects, and Steffen will send a summary
> message today.  If you have any other ideas for achieving this let us know.

No, I have no other idea. I remember a bug and a long discussion about this. 
One of my requests to the teams was: Provide a feature that makes it easy for 
other adopters to consume the new plug-in, but they had reasons not to 
provide such a feature.

Markus



> Mik
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Markus Knauer [mailto:mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 2:58 AM
> > To: Steffen Pingel
> > Cc: Eclipse Packaging Project; Mik Kersten
> > Subject: Re: changes in org.eclipse.mylyn.ide_feature
> >
> > On Friday 23 May 2008, Steffen Pingel wrote:
> > > The features of the Mylyn 3.0RC1 release that was pushed to the
> >
> > Ganymede
> >
> > > update site today have been restructured. The
> >
> > org.eclipse.mylyn.ide_feature
> >
> > > now includes CVS integration and depends on org.eclipse.mylyn_team
> >
> > feature.
> >
> > > This means that the following feature needs to be added to all EPP
> >
> > packages
> >
> > > that include the Mylyn IDE Integration feature (i.e. CPP, Java, JEE,
> >
> > RCP):
> > >  <feature
> > >       id="org.eclipse.mylyn.team_feature"
> > >       version="latest">
> > >
> > > Here is the corresponding bug report:
> > >
> > >  manage Mylyn participation in EPP
> > >  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=187154
> > >
> > > Steffen
> >
> > That means that *all* package configurations that include Mylyn should
> > start
> > with something like this
> >
> >     <feature
> >       id="org.eclipse.mylyn_feature"
> >       version="latest">
> >     </feature>
> >     <feature
> >       id="org.eclipse.mylyn.context_feature"
> >       version="latest">
> >     </feature>
> >     <feature
> >       id="org.eclipse.mylyn.team_feature"
> >       version="latest">
> >     </feature>
> >     <feature
> >       id="org.eclipse.mylyn.ide_feature"
> >       version="latest">
> >     </feature>
> >     ....
> >
> > plus additional Mylyn features such as
> > org.eclipse.mylyn.bugzilla_feature,
> > org.eclipse.cdt.mylyn, ...
> >
> > Correct?
> >
> > Markus



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