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

[Tom Baeyens]

| 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.

euh...

| 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)

huh ?

| 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.

maybe...
 
| 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 :)

whatever...

| 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 ;)

YES! I ABSOLUTELY AGREE! COUNT ME IN !!!

| 
| /max