Re: [tycho-user] What packaging to use for a myapp.target project?

["Oberlies, Tobias" <tobias.oberlies@xxxxxxx>]

Steinar Bang wrote:
> > Not sure if this was the right thing to do, though...?  I would have
> > liked to do everything in the POM files and have m2e pick it up and
> > set up eclipse for me.
> 
> As far as I can tell from today's google searches, that won't be the
> case: there can only be one target platform setting per workspace:
>  Window->Preferences
> then
>  Plug-in Development->Target Platform
> 
> The choices in that property dialog window are the Running Platform, and
> all of the projects containing .target files, but there can only be one
> selected at any given time.
> 
> There is a still-open issue for making it possible to have more than one
> target platform definition per workspace, that was almost fixed for
> eclipse 3.8, but was dropped for lack of resources:
>  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=159072
> 
> So if you have more than one tycho project with different target
> platform requirements living in a single eclipse workspace, the simplest
> way to make things build, is to ensure that you have all of the
> requirements installed in the eclipse itself.

This comes down to personal taste.

I usually organize my projects in working sets, so that each project requiring a target file is in a separate working set. Then, when I switch the target platform, I just close the working sets which no longer compile.

Regards
Tobias