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

[Koen Aers]

Max,

Your summary is basically correct. I will not do the two feature.xml
part as I will reuse Marshall's ant task though. If there is going to be
two features, this will be part of the long term plan.

I am in any case most interested in the midterm plan that will be
happening in Berlin. ;-)

Regards,
Koen 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Andersen 
> Sent: vrijdag 29 september 2006 14:17
> To: Max Andersen; Koen Aers; Marshall Culpepper; 
> jbosside-dev at 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
> 
> 
>