Re: [mylyn-pmc] pre-req/works-with dependency for desktop search compone

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that we have a blanket exempt pre-req on Windows for all
projects that should apply here. It's the same sort of thing that SWT
does; at least conceptually. I'll confirm.

Wayne

On 06/30/2011 07:29 PM, Steffen Pingel wrote:
> Hi PMC,
>
> we have recently added a Desktop Search component to the Mylyn
> Incubator. It's an extensible API that allows contributions of desktop
> search providers through an extension point.
>
> Currently, there is only one provider for a Windows specific
> implementations using JNI which is attached in a patch on bug 349351.
> It includes native code that needs to be build against a number of
> Windows APIs listed on bug 349630.
>
> The question that came up is if this is a pre-req or works-with
> dependency and if we would need to file a CQ?
>
> Currently, the code is in the Mylyn Incubator project and would not
> get released. We would like to make bundles available from the
> Incubator snapshot repository though that would include a dll with the
> native code.
>
> Steffen
>

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