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Hi all,<br>
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As you may know, we leverage Target Platform (TP) at build-time to
set up a build path. A TP is basically a list of dependencies we
allow for build to perform. TP are also usable at dev-time in PDE
and guarantees what you can depend on when you write a plugin. For
example, if you depend on something that is not part of your TP,
you'll see some errors for unresolved bundles.<br>
<br>
The next step for this Target Platforms would the <b>you,
developers, use these target platforms in PDE</b>. Then we would
all ensure we depend on the same stuff at dev-time and build-time,
and it would prevent some synchronization errors between what you
require, and what the TP contain.<br>
You can use TP by importing them into your workspace (checkout
build/target-platform folder), and then enable them with Window >
Preferences > Plugin Development > Target Platform. We already
identified some pitfalls with current TP, but we'll work on making
them more usable for developers. Please report your ideas in JIRA on
how to improve target platforms so that you could use them too. Here
are some first ideas, please contribute to these ideas and raise new
ones.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11688">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11688</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11689">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11689</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11690">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11690</a><br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Mickael Istria<br>
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by Red Hat</a><br>
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