Yep, I know. I was simply saying that I was confused because it does not at the moment.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:max.andersen@redhat.com" target="_blank">max.andersen@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">yes, this is not unique to eclipse (and even though eclipse have full osgi model under it is still a nightmare) - and I would be really interested in how you would avoid plugin interdependencies at Forge going forward ?<br>
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Don't you expect others to depend on each other and build on top ?<br>
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/max<br>
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On May 31, 2012, at 9:56 , Koen Aers wrote:<br>
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> Hi Lincoln,<br>
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> Plugin dependencies could become a reality very soon. Imagine a plugin that adds a facet to a project that is being used by yet another plugin…<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
> Koen<br>
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> Op 31-mei-2012, om 08:30 heeft Lincoln Baxter, III het volgende geschreven:<br>
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>> Ah, you were talking about eclipse. Yes, this makes sense. It's painful. I was confused because Forge currently doesn't have any plugin dependencies.<br>
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>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Thomas Frühbeck <<a href="mailto:fruehbeck@aon.at">fruehbeck@aon.at</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Lincoln,<br>
>> are you one of those lucky guys who don't have to hassle regularly with incompatible plugins in Eclipse?<br>
>> Just a hint:<br>
>> - I tried to install JBoss Tools 32bit into classic Eclipse 32bit on Win7 - it failed in the middle of installing ???<br>
>> - SVN: there are two prominent plugins, incompatible, one looking half way like the other but handling is very different in the hard cases, PITA from start to end, I see myself reverting regularly to the command line<br>
>> - for some time recently I couldn't update my m2e plugin because it carried a dependency to a something in version 1.1 which was not released yet ???<br>
>><br>
>> Have a look at the different flavors Eclipse IDE bundles - to me the main reason for those is: plug-in (inter-) dependencies and plug-in management.<br>
>> I don't want to complain, but to me these are the everyday problems I face _after_ I told my boss that the fix xxx will only take an hour :-/ (The fix itself may take 5 minutes, the rest of the day it will take to get the infrastructure of the project up and running again.)<br>
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>> And then we are programmers open for the newest, latest, greatest. And of course any author of a plugin would want his customers to pick up the new functionality ASAP.<br>
>> So I think one core features is a stable, manageable plugin life cycle.<br>
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>> Thomas<br>
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>> Am <a href="tel:31.05.2012%2007" value="+13105201207">31.05.2012 07</a>:40, schrieb Lincoln Baxter, III:<br>
>>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Burr Sutter <<a href="mailto:bsutter@redhat.com">bsutter@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Well said Thomas - I am a great "dumb user" and plug-in dependencies drive me nuts.<br>
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>>> What do you mean by plug-in dependencies? What drives you nuts?<br>
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