Re: [jbosstools-dev] JBoss Tools Orbit and Teiid Locus

From: "Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Paul Richardson" <p.g.richardson(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Mickael Istria" <mistria(a)redhat.com&gt;, "jbosstools-dev jbosstools-dev" <jbosstools-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt;, "Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Barry Lafond" <blafond(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 6:34:33 AM Subject: Re: JBoss Tools Orbit and Teiid Locus

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:29:07AM +0100, Paul Richardson wrote: >Morning guys, > >Back from holiday so apologies for not answering sooner. > >No problem at all with sharing it and moving it forward. I haven't had much >time to give it more >attention, especially as the current prototype satisfies teiid designer's >current requirements. >However, always intended to try and get it more generic ... > >The locus source repository is available here[1]. > >It is currently used as part of Teiid Designer 8.1 alpha/beta releases and >unreleased 8.1+ code so >if there are to be changes affecting the plugin namespaces then probably >before 8.1's release would >be preferable. If not, then as long as the current locus update site remains >for 8.1 then we can >transition to a new update site for 8.2.

whats the timeline for 8.1 release ?

/max

>The current locus update site that Teiid Designer fetches plugins from is >here[2]. > >Let me know thoughts ... chat further > >Cheers > >PGR > >[1] https://github.com/Teiid-Designer/locus >[2] http://download.jboss.org/teiid/designer/updates/locus > >On 04/17/2013 04:33 PM, Mickael Istria wrote: >> Hi Paul, >> >> I can see in your comments on https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12815 >> that you've started to >> work on an "Orbit-like" repo to share some common JAR dependencies as OSGi >> bundles on a p2 repo. >> We see that as an interesting prototype for a JBoss Orbit/Locus that we >> could share for all >> Eclipse-based repo at Eclipse. We'd like to make some changes such as >> fixing some package names, >> avoid committing jars (in favor of maven-dependency-plugin or >> maven-download-plugin), add FestAssert >> and others... >> Do you have any objection with making this repo part of the jbosstools >> organization ? >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Mickael Istria >> Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> >> My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets >> <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria> > >-- >Paul Richardson > > * p.g.richardson(a)redhat.com > * pgrichardson(a)linux.com > * mob: +44 (0)9780 869490 >