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

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:33:35 +0200, Koen Aers <koen.aers at jboss.com> 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 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
>>
>>
>>



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