Yep, I know. I was simply saying that I was confused because it does not at the moment.

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen@redhat.com> wrote:
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 ?

Don't you expect others to depend on each other and build on top ?

/max

On May 31, 2012, at 9:56 , Koen Aers wrote:

> Hi Lincoln,
>
> 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…
>
> Cheers,
> Koen
>
> Op 31-mei-2012, om 08:30 heeft Lincoln Baxter, III het volgende geschreven:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Thomas Frühbeck <fruehbeck@aon.at> wrote:
>> Lincoln,
>> are you one of those lucky guys who don't have to hassle regularly with incompatible plugins in Eclipse?
>> Just a hint:
>>     - I tried to install JBoss Tools 32bit into classic Eclipse 32bit on Win7 - it failed in the middle of installing ???
>>     - 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
>>     - 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 ???
>>
>> 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.
>> 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.)
>>
>> 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.
>> So I think one core features is a stable, manageable plugin life cycle.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> Am 31.05.2012 07:40, schrieb Lincoln Baxter, III:
>>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Burr Sutter <bsutter@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Well said Thomas - I am a great "dumb user" and plug-in dependencies drive me nuts.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by plug-in dependencies? What drives you nuts?
>>>
>>>
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