Re: [forge-dev] How should plugins keep up with api updates

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(a)aon.at&gt; 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(a)redhat.com&gt; 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? >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > forge-dev mailing list > forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev > > > > > -- > Lincoln Baxter, III > http://ocpsoft.org > "Simpler is better." > _______________________________________________ > forge-dev mailing list > forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev _______________________________________________ forge-dev mailing list forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev