[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-8012) evaluate options that remove dependency to GWT SDK bundle

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-8012:
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Can you depend on their plugins instead of their features?

Or... can we rebuild their bits from source ourselves, and re-release it using osgi-friendly feature names (instead of their insanity), with plugins that export packages correctly?

Are sources available? If not, we could simply rebuild their features like I do for Drools, and publish that in a way that we can then depend on. We'd still need to rebuild when they rename their features, but we might be able to automate that using a script that culls information from their site.xml.

> evaluate options that remove dependency to GWT SDK bundle
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>
>                 Key: JBIDE-8012
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-8012
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: GWT
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.0.CR1
>            Reporter: Andre Dietisheim
>            Assignee: Nick Boldt
>             Fix For: 3.2.x
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> nick, I thought about possibilities to remove the dependency to the gwt sdk bundle since our integration plugin gets uninstallable as soon as google releases a new version. We currently have no choice but to track their updates and release a new version.
> The basic problem is that google had the great idea to include the plugin version into the plugin name and that they remove old version from their update site.
> I currently don't see any viable solution (optional dependencies dont help for new versions; I cannot depend on packages instead of the bundle since their bundle does not export any package).
> Do you see any option that would allow us to trigger the installation of the gwt-sdk bundle when someone installs our integration plugin?

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