Re: [cdt-dev] Native plug-ins

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>]

Ah, never mind. JNA has not be approved. Which is too bad, it’s pretty
cool.

Doug.


On 2015-03-16, 3:58 PM, "Doug Schaefer" <dschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 2015-03-16, 2:55 PM, "Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>On 16/03/2015 10:57 AM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
>>> One of the topics discussed at EclipseCon was the native plug-ins,
>>> I.e. the ones that do the Spawner, PTY, Windows Registry, and now
>>> Serial Port. There is more interest in using this functionality
>>> outside the scope of the CDT. In fact, I¹ve received a couple of
>>> requests to use it outside of Eclipse, especially the Serial Port.
>>>
>>> I¹ll be taking a look at this in the upcoming weeks. One part of this,
>>> to make them more mobile in case we want to push it down the stack,
>>> I¹d like to move it into it¹s own repo. At the very least we need a
>>> separate build since things like org.eclipse.remote will need to
>>> depend on it which creates a circular build dependency.
>>
>>Doug,
>>
>>As discussed at EclipseCon: With respect to Serial Port specifically, we
>>may want to consider dual-licensing the code EPL+EDL(BSD). That would
>>ensure that the component could be consumed in GPL licensed projects. I
>>suspect that a well-written, well-maintained, and liberally licensed
>>replacement for RXTX would be of great interest.
>
>Yes, I am still considering how that would work. The Serial Port
>functionality depends on the Windows Registry code we have. And if we go
>there, I would think the rest of the native functionality may be of
>interest in the same way.
>
>I guess the issue then is changing the license of the existing code which
>would require approval from all the copyright holders, which may be tricky
>as some of this is really old code.
>
>Some of that may be mitigated by using JNA which I hear has been approved
>for use in the Platform. We could then separate this stuff out into
>separate plug-ins more easily and then license them differently.
>
>Need to think about that a bit more.
>
>Thanks!
>Doug.
>
>>
>>-- 
>>Mike Milinkovich
>>mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>+1.613.220.3223 (mobile)
>>
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