Re: [platform-ui-dev] Resource Navigator plugin

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Francis,

My advice would be to start the process
on getting the new plug-in, but wait until after M1 to release it. The
last day or two of development on the milestone seems a bit late for such
a major refactoring. Also, the rest of the platform UI team is going to
be scarce over the next few days after shipping e4, so you might not get
the support and feedback you need on it (The IBM Ottawa committers will
be away Mon/Tue next week for example). In my view it's always better to
get something like this in at the beginning of a milestone to leave lots
of time to shake out problems.

As for whether plug-in projects should
be top-level folders or not, I suggest bringing that up at a platform UI
call, because it's good to be consistent rather than have a mixture of
locations for your plug-ins. When the layout is not consistent it can be
really hard for people to find the source for a given plug-in if they want
to check it out. See org.eclipse.compare for an example of a component
that does this (p2 is in the EclipseRT repository which has a very different
layout).

John

"Francis Upton" <francisu@xxxxxxxx>
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07/30/2009 03:58 PM

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Subject	[platform-ui-dev] Resource Navigator plugin

I have just woken and found there is some work I need
to do for 3.6M1

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/ResourceNavigator

Part of the plan says to move the RN into a separate plugin from the
org.eclipse.ui.ide plugin, probably something like
org.eclipse.ui.ide.resource.navigator

The thing that I got stuck with is it would seem this would require a new
top-level plugin, and I have heard there is a long hard approval process
required for this sort of thing.  Nothing that's going to happen today.

I also know there are many projects that get around this by having a
top-level plugin that's not related to the plugins that are in the product
(Like p2 for example).

What should I do about this?  And sorry for asking about it at the
last
minute.  It only dawned on my a couple of hours ago that I could not
do
this by myself.

Francis

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