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Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] support for separated source bundles released
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The file is written by the eclipse touchpoint as a result of a particular
command. In the future I could see it being edited by another command /
party should we decide to list in here the source for other things than
bundles.
The file is read by update.core (for compatibility) and by pde. Initially I
wanted to store it in a folder org.eclipse.pde (under the config area), but
since it was also used by update I found it a new home.
I did not want to store it in org.eclipse.equinox,simpleconfigurator
because this file is not managed by the simpleconfigurator and it is not a
runtime artifact. Source.bundle happens to have the same format than the
bundles.txt because it carries similar information and I did not want to
invent yet another file format. That said this is an implementation detail
and could well change before we ship depending on the people consuming it
needs
As for changing the name of bundles.txt to just bundles, I'm not a big fan
of droping the extension because then it makes it hard to talk about the
file (e.g Do you have all your bundles in the bundles file), however I
don't care about changing it to something else (e.g. list) if someone
provides a patch. We also have to remember that this file is not API and is
completely managed by p2.
PaScaL
equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/03/2008 03:08:28 PM:
> Thanks Pascal.
>
> As for location, where does it go now? Who writes it? Who reads it?
> I'm not suggesting it should be beside bundles.txt but am curious to
> know why it should not be there? Colocation seems logical on the
> surface (and depending on the answer to the questions above).
>
> As for naming, bundles.txt should just be "bundles" The fact that it
> currently happens to be a text file is implementation detail that may
> change over time. Correspondingly, the source.bundles.txt should likely
> just be source.bundles
>
> Jeff
>
> Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> > PDE is "la raison d'etre" of this support. When we decided to no longer
add
> > the source bundles to the bundles.txt (a week or so ago), PDE could not
> > find the source bundles any more since the content of its target is
solely
> > derived from the bundles.txt. Therefore PDE needed an extra place to
get
> > the information from and this is what this file provides.
> > It is only after consultation with Darin and Curtis that we decided to
> > proceed down this path.
> >
> > The other consumer of this information is update manager, since in a
> > co-existence mode where source bundles do not get installed in the fwk,
> > Update shows errors in the configuration dialog.
> >
> > Note that I'm open to put the file somewhere else and give it another
name,
> > except merging it with bundles.txt or putting it next to it.
> >
> > PaScaL
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-
> dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Date: 01/30/2008 07:04 PM
> >
> > Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] support for separated
> source bundles released
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > does this affect PDE at all when targetting something installed using
> > p2? That is, do you still get the source in the IDE ?
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> >
> >> Earlier today I have released support to ensure that the source
bundles
> >> would not get added to the bundles.txt (and therefore not installed in
> >>
> > the
> >
> >> runtime).
> >> This support also manages a new file containing all the source bundles
> >>
> > for
> >
> >> the a given installation. This file is located
> >> <install>/configuration/org.eclipse.source.bundles/source.bundles.txt
and
> >> will be used by PDE and some update manager in co-existence mode.
> >>
> >> PaScaL
> >>
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