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Re: [epp-dev] package-wise source code & bug data information
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Hi,
first some words about the bugs: Each and every Eclipse project defines one product and at least one component in Bugzilla. For the EPP packages there is exactly one component for every package that may be used by the users for filing bugs, but you cannot be sure what users are really doing. If you are looking at a package details page in the web (such as
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/heliossr1) you will find numbers and queries to resolved and open bugs for this particular package.
About the content: There is a list of features on the package details page (see above for an example) that defines the packages content. But please be aware that this list of feature is only a starting point for the p2 director that tries to find a solution to the given dependencies. So in the end there are *more* features installed in every package. That about the features... now: Every feature includes a set of bundles that are in the plugins directory of the package. All these bundles are from Eclipse projects and you should be able to guess from the bundle name which project created it. And these plugins/bundles *are* your package (i.e. not the features!). IMO the source doesn't help you that much, but maybe you should look at the Usage Data Collector output (
http://eclipse.org/org/usagedata/ - for some unknown reason the data is currently unavailable).
Regards, Markus
On 28 October 2010 16:16, Sandeep Krishnan
<krishsandy85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
Thanks Cédric for the reply. What does contextual action in the plug-ins view mean?
Also, in the page that you gave, there is a list of plugins which are included in the package. After downloading the package, I looked through the folder called feature and another called plugins. The feature folder has the same list of plugins which are mentioned in the download page. There are a few extra plugins also. The plugins folder has many other plugins. Are these plugins also part of the package?
If I just download the source code of the plugins listed in the feature folder, will that be sufficient to get the package running using from source code? Or do I have to also download all the plugins in the plugin folder?
I actually want to get some information about the Eclipse architecture, e.g. the dependency structure, some metrics, etc. And I think I can do it only if I can get source code for the package. So any help to solve this would is appreciated.
Also, can you help in anyway about the bug data information. i.e. Do users have to specify the module where the bug was encountered? If the user only knows that bug came in Eclipse Java EE but dont know the project how is the bug filed? Can I get a list of the bugs that were reported for just the Java EE package?
If anyone can answer any of these questions, it would be great help.
Thank you very much.
