[wtp-dev] Status and plans for WTP M4 (and JEM in our WTP M4).

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

close ... but, I'm slow getting the
"packaging" right. 

Hopefully I'm doing our last packaging
build now ... but, I'll check it out tonight, and send 
another note, when final bits are ready.


The code itself hasn't changed much
since before the holidays but since I've changed some 
key aspects of packaging, I'll ask all
the committer-teams to sanity check once the final bits
are ready, and be sure I haven't left
out ~your~ plugin :) 

I've been having lots of talk with the
VE/JEM developers and we are close to having a 
long term plan, but we can't finish
that until next week, so expect an update then. 

But, most important for our M4 deadline!,
there will not be an M4 version of JEM/VE, so 
there is no chance of Europa conflicts
with our patched JEM version for M4 ... so .... 

For M4, we'll include our patched version
of JEM in automatically with the lowest common feature, 
and remove it from the "pre-req"
list. This isn't great, since not "built" with our normal process,

and hence no "SDK" version
of JEM, but I think it will suffice for M4, and by M5 we'll have a process
worked out. 

(In case anyone has lost track over
the long holidays, we needed a re-gen'd, re-compiled version of JEM for

EMF 2.3, but this was not expected nor
planned for by the VE developers (nor us), so we made our own version of
it). 

I assume everyone else is done committing
code for M4? 

So, keep your eyes open for the "final
bits" note, and please allocate some time for 
a quick sanity check with those final
bits before our status meeting on Thursday. 

Thanks,