From: "Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse@redhat.com>
To: "Paul Richardson" <p.g.richardson@redhat.com>
Cc: "Mickael Istria" <mistria@redhat.com>, "jbosstools-dev jbosstools-dev" <jbosstools-dev@lists.jboss.org>, "Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@redhat.com>, "Barry Lafond" <blafond@redhat.com>
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>
>
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