Re: [jbosstools-dev] Brainstorming: Target Platform for developers too

Hi all, 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. The next step for this Target Platforms would the *you, developers, use these target platforms in PDE*. 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. 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. https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11688 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11689 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11690 Thanks, -- 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> _______________________________________________ jbosstools-dev mailing list jbosstools-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosstools-dev