RE: [platform-core-dev] RE: e4 Resources Kickoff Meeting

["Schaefer, Doug" <Doug.Schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, James. Contributors are invited, but there are other ways to
contribute than code. Providing feedback so that we know we're going in
the right direction is welcomed too.

The alias issue is very complicated. We need to somehow map different
alias to the same file, and then map it too the different aliases the
resource tree gives it. But we feel you're pain as many Eclipse users
run into the same issues.

Cheers,
Doug. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: platform-core-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:platform-core-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> James Blackburn
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 11:00 AM
> To: Eclipse Platform Core component developers list.
> Subject: Re: [platform-core-dev] RE: e4 Resources Kickoff Meeting
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I had hoped to participate in this call as an interested 
> non-committer, unfortunately we have a full team meeting 
> today at the same time.  I'd very much like to participate in 
> future calls, if non committers are welcome?!
> 
> As per Doug's question on interest in the future of platform 
> resources:
> I'm currently responsible for the Eclipse IDE and C related 
> integrations for a small team within Broadcom.  Currently 
> we're quite keen to have the power of Eclipse resource 
> integration (local history, team integration, etc.) with the 
> flexibility of the visual studio style arbitrary project 
> hierarchies.  To that extent Serge's patches go along way to 
> making that experience better already!  Unfortunately, as 
> things stand in 3.4 platform, Alias management is a difficult 
> problem and near-impossible for integrators to get right out 
> of the box.
> In my previous mail there were examples of things that go 
> wrong.  Just working through the CDT use case in the last day 
> - build / edit / debug (with 3.4 using nested projects and 
> linked resources) I've so far discovered many issues with 
> Alias resolution:
> Bug 247838 - Wrong file gets Error / warning annotations 
> during CDT build Bug 247851 - Can't set line breakpoint on a 
> Linked Resource Bug 247948 - Having hit a breakpoint on a 
> linked resource, debugger opens the wrong source file
> 
> Admittedly they're relatively straightforward issues to fix, 
> but it somehow seems wrong that by default integrators get the 'wrong'
> resource when resolving external file locations to workspace 
> resources.
> 
> So anyway, I'm glad to see that Alias resolution is high on 
> the list of issues and excited by the other items! Looking 
> forward to reading the meeting notes and carrying on the 
> discussion in the future!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Oberhuber, Martin 
> <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I put together a Wiki page for meeting agenda and notes, based on 
> > Doug's Agenda and the Stuff I had collected before.
> >
> > Please edit as appropriate (adding attendees, items to 
> discuss, fixing
> > typos...)
> > but not during the meeting to avoid merge conflicts!
> >
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Resources/Meeting/19-Sep-2008_Kick-off
> >
> > Talk you later,
> > --
> > Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind 
> River Target 
> > Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member 
> > http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
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