[jbosstools-dev] Brainstorming: Target Platform for developers too

[Mickael Istria]

Here is an "umbrella" issue to track related use cases.

On 04/27/2012 06:27 PM, Mickael Istria wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As you may know, we leverage Target Platform (TP) at build-time to set 
> up a build path. A TP is basically a list of dependencies we allow for 
> build to perform. TP are also usable at dev-time in PDE and guarantees 
> what you can depend on when you write a plugin. For example, if you 
> depend on something that is not part of your TP, you'll see some 
> errors for unresolved bundles.
>
> The next step for this Target Platforms would the *you, developers, 
> use these target platforms in PDE*. Then we would all ensure we depend 
> on the same stuff at dev-time and build-time, and it would prevent 
> some synchronization errors between what you require, and what the TP 
> contain.
> You can use TP by importing them into your workspace (checkout 
> build/target-platform folder), and then enable them with Window > 
> Preferences > Plugin Development > Target Platform. We already 
> identified some pitfalls with current TP, but we'll work on making 
> them more usable for developers. Please report your ideas in JIRA on 
> how to improve target platforms so that you could use them too. Here 
> are some first ideas, please contribute to these ideas and raise new ones.
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11688
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11689
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11690
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Mickael Istria
> Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools>
> My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets 
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>
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Mickael Istria
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