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

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

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 at aon.at> 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 at redhat.com> 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?
>
>
>
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