[incquery-dev] Eiqgen-based EPackage resolution unnecessary?

[Ujhelyi Zoltán <ujhelyiz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

while debugging some EPackage resolution related issues, it dawned on me that the code from Balázs Grill (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=398720) to open EPackages from the target platform might make the eiqgen-based resolution unnecessary, as the target platform not only includes binary plug-ins (by default from the host), but also all open plug-in projects.

This can be quite important, as this approach is much cleaner than the one we took the eiqgen files. This means, if the target platform approach is truly better, I would like to remove the eiqgen based resolution (it would be cleaner, and also less code to maintain).

However, I wouldn't want to cause some regressions this way. So at the moment I would ask that everybody who uses a recent build from eclipse.org (either CI or integration, and especially those who will use milestone 1), and try to turn off eiqgen based package resolution, and report when it fails.

Alltogether, I am interested in use cases that the eiqgen approach supports, but the target platform based does not, so we could make an informed decision (hopefully in the M2 timeframe).

Thanks,
Zoli
-- Zoltán Ujhelyi
https://www.inf.mit.bme.hu/en/members/ujhelyiz

Fault Tolerant Systems Research Group
Budapest University of Technology and Economics