Re: [platform-swt-dev] Separate p2 repository for the SWT bundles to con

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Markus for the warnings.

> No, but such mixing ...and a strange idea in the first place.

That is IMHO a sad statement. We are so proud of our plug-in based
architecture and spend so much time in maintaining backward
compatibility and the correct version range in our dependencies and
plug-ins.

But every time someone suggest to actually use a modern version of a
plug-in with a older set of plug-ins we recommend again it.

Best regards, Lars


On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Markus Keller
<markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Do you foresee any issues with that?
> No, but such mixing is completely untested, not recommended, and a strange
> idea in the first place. If the customer thinks the RCP bundles from Neon
> are not in a good shape, then they better spend their time on testing and
> fixing that.
>
>> Does SWT provide a separate update side for its bundles?
> No. SWT bundles can be consumed from the SDK update sites.
>
> Markus
>
>
> platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 2016-05-31 11:37:37:
>> From: Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Dear SWT colleagues,
>>
>> I have a customer using the Eclipse Mars release for this RCP
>> application. To leverage the advantages in SWT for GTK3 he would like
>> to consume the SWT bundles from Neon and leave the rest of the
>> plug-ins on Mars level.
>>
>> Do you foresee any issues with that? Does SWT provide a separate
>> update side for its bundles?
>>
>> Best regards, Lars
>>
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