Rich,
I certainly wouldn't be happy to exclude incubating components. I
think it should be sufficient that any component that's conforming to
the Ganymede rules be eligible for inclusion in the modeling package.
There are an awful lot of valuable and cool EMFT components that should
be included and it would be silly to exclude the UMLTools...
The SDK issue is a bit of a tricky one too. Source code is awfully
useful when such a large percentage of the users will be generating
code that extends the framework and will likely find themselves
handicapped without the framework source code.
We ought to talk to the STP folks about including BPMN too...
Richard Gronback wrote:
We’ve
been discussing a Modeling package for a while, so as suggested, I’m
posting here and to the Modeling newsgroup to move ahead with its
proposal and definition.
In accordance with the proposed policies (http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.packaging/msg00100.html),
it seems we should create a package that includes features shipping
under the “Models and Model Development” category of Europa/Ganymede
(and their dependencies). This would be:
- EMF Runtime
- EMF SDO
- XSD
- EMF Data Integrity Frameworks
(Query/Transaction/Validation)
- JET
- GMF
- EODM
- OCL
- UML2
- UML2 Tools
To comply with policy 6a, which requires a 1.0 release or later, we’d
need to exclude JET, EODM, and UML2 Tools. The most concerning aspect
of this is the loss of UML2 Tools, which would mean the Modeling
package would have no UML diagramming. How firm is this requirement?
Note that we may also add components to Ganymede before the M4 cutoff
on December 14th (e.g. M2M QVTO and M2T Xpand).
I suspect to keep with policy 3, which requires keeping the packages as
small as possible, we should not include SDK features. Does this
present a problem to anyone?
Another point to consider are those “modeling” features found outside
of the Modeling project. For example, STP has a BPMN diagramming
feature. Should we look to include all end user modeling/diagramming
features in this package?
Thanks,
Rich
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