RE: [platform-team-dev] How come Eclipse Team Plugins are notconsistent

["Walsh, Richard \(Dublin\)" <Richard.Walsh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very much for your response.

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From: platform-team-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:platform-team-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Valenta
Sent: 31 October 2008 00:38
To: Generic team support framework
Subject: Re: [platform-team-dev] How come Eclipse Team Plugins are notconsistent

Richie,

While there is some Team API that can be used by repository 
providers to ease their integration into Eclipse, there is no generic Eclipse 
Team API that is intended for use by 3rd parties. Some of the Team API could 
potentially be used by third parties but there is no way to enforce that all 
repository providers implement this API.

The problem with providing a generic Team API for use by third parties is that is a very complicated task due to the differences in the many repository types available. Most previous attempts at defining such an API have not been very successful (e.g. JSR 147).

Michael

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Walsh, Richard (Dublin) <Richard.Walsh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Hi there,

I am currently doing some work on CVS and SVN. We need to support both on our platform. We were hoping for a generic API for this. In the Team API we though we had this. However, it appears that subclipse and subversive do not use the Team API through SVNKit. It heads off in its own direction.

My question is this. How come SVNKit does not use the Team API, whereas CVS support does. I would have thought that creators of Team Plugins should all use the Team API for consistent communication to any SCM Server. But this appears not to be enforced.

thanks,

Richie.

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