Re: [platform-vcm-dev] VCM plugin for StarTeam

[Ringo De Smet <ridesmet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> "Our plan is to have the VCM 2.0 design closed off by end of year, and 
> an
> initial cut of our new CVS adapter written for
> VCM 2.0 in that same time frame. We are eager to work with repository
> vendors in the context of the Eclipse Project
> at eclipse.org in that same time frame, in order to validate our design,
> and to ensure that there will be first class integrations
> from the major vendors for the release of Eclipse 2.0."
>
> So I guess the word is: be patient, and there will soon be a much better
> API for you to work with.

I read on the VCM page that the goal is to have CVS + 2 additional 
providers ready by the end of the year. I suspect that one of the two 
additional ones will be ClearCase. I would like to propose StarTeam as 
the second. And I don't know if StarBase is going to participate 
themselves in this, but otherwise I will. The company where I work 
standardized on StarTeam and we also have the StarTeam SDK. This SDK 
includes a full Java library to all the features of StarTeam, so an 
Eclipse integration should be easily done. No native code has to be 
written at all.

I don't know about the licensing and distribution terms of the StarTeam 
Java library. I'll figure this one out.

BTW, if I would start on this one, what build of the R2.0 stream should 
I use? Stable, nightly or integration build? Can I use the 1.0 version 
to develop and a 2.0 build to test my code against?

You may interpret this message as an official request to the PMC for the 
creation of a StarTeam VCM sub project.

Ringo