Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] SDK's on Galileo?

[Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oberhuber, Martin wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> given that target platform components need to be consumed by
> a different wizard than updating Eclipse itself, has anyone
> ever thought about putting those RT Target Platform stuff into
> a separate Repository?
>   
Yes that was explicitly considered and we decided to go with one repo.  
My (somewhat faulty) recollection is that this was seen as simpler (one 
repo vs two for users) and given the relatively small number of things 
in the Target category for this release, the most efficient approach.
> And have that target platform repository auto-populated in 
> the PDE Targe Platform provisioning wizard, but not in the
> p2 update wizard.
>   
The current target mechanism is not able to do this separation so both 
repos would show up in both locations in the UI. That is effectively 
another reason why the split would not be that useful (currently).
> While I do understand the role of source bundles in the 
> target platform category, I still don't quite understand
> what we're going to do with the developer docs (*.doc.isv
> bundles) since my understanding is that those need to live
> in the host Eclipse...
>   
Yes, my understanding is similar though it of course makes sense for the 
ISV doc to come from the target just like the source.  We should look at 
that requirement in 3.6.  Another way look at this is that the ISV doc 
is "like tooling" for the runtime and people should install it into 
their IDE.  Personally I think this is a poor second choice since I 
often switch targets between 3.4 and 3.5 (for example). However, it is 
where we are in the Help / Target support now so we should deliver our 
content accordingly.

Jeff