RE: [jbosside-dev] Re: About feature.xml and bundling plugins (WAS: jBPM Designer feature.xml needs to be updated)

-----Original Message----- From: Max Andersen Sent: vrijdag 29 september 2006 15:37 To: Koen Aers; Marshall Culpepper; jbosside-dev(a)lists.jboss.org Cc: Tom Baeyens Subject: Re: [jbosside-dev] Re: About feature.xml and bundling plugins (WAS: jBPM Designer feature.xml needs to be updated) On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:33:35 +0200, Koen Aers <koen.aers(a)jboss.com&gt; wrote: > Max, > > Your summary is basically correct. I will not do the two feature.xml > part as I will reuse Marshall's ant task though. Ah ok, cool ;) > If there is going to be > two features, this will be part of the long term plan. ok. > I am in any case most interested in the midterm plan that will be > happening in Berlin. ;-) Me too ;) /max > Regards, > Koen > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Max Andersen >> Sent: vrijdag 29 september 2006 14:17 >> To: Max Andersen; Koen Aers; Marshall Culpepper; >> jbosside-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> Cc: Tom Baeyens >> Subject: Re: [jbosside-dev] Re: About feature.xml and bundling >> plugins (WAS: jBPM Designer feature.xml needs to be updated) >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I had a chat with Koen today about to get to the bottom of this fine >> discussion. >> >> To make the long story short here is what will be done short term: >> >> 1) Koen will make a feature.xml with import instead of plugin >> references so JBossIDE 2 beta2 can get out. >> >> 2) Koen will also work on a solution for Jbpm's starterkit which >> depends on having a feature.xml that will let include the plugins. >> (One suggestion was that they would have two feature.xml's one for >> the 'no dependencies' feature.xml and another 'starterkit' >> feature.xml that refers to the 'no dependencies' >> feature.xml) >> >> There probably will/can be issues in this aspect but the faster we >> get this going (e.g. have the jboss ide build actually running with >> the files Koen fixes today) the faster we can move forward - I assume >> this will mostly affect Koen and Marshall so please speak up guys if >> you need help with solving/fixing some of this. >> >> Koen, please correct me if my description of the short-term >> conclusion is wrong ;) >> >> Longer term we will have to figure how jbpm's IDE parts fits into the >> overall picture of JBossIDE build system; but that will be another >> mail/discussion when we get over the bumps of releasing jbosside 2 >> and jbpm 3.something :) >> >> p.s. a side conclusion is that feature's in Eclipse is broken and >> that we need a beer drinking contest in Berlin to get to a final >> settlement of how to fix it ;) >> >> /max >> >> >> -- -- Max Rydahl Andersen callto://max.rydahl.andersen Hibernate max(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org JBoss a division of Red Hat max.andersen(a)jboss.com