[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-12307) unified.target appears broken

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBIDE-12307:
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So far, target-platform are mainly used at build-time to ensure we build and test against what we decided to support. They work well for build, but they may not contain the necessary stuff for comfortable usage in IDE. See JBIDE-11726

But you can use them in your IDE without problem: just don't click "Update" in the Target editor, it's not clear what it does, but that's probably not what you expect. Instead, open the .target in Target editor, and click on "Set as Target Platform" in the upper-right corner. It will make PDE use this target platform for resolution of bundles.
By trying this, I got the same result as you get for unified.target. But I think it's not a blocker if you want to use this TP in your IDE.

You should be able to use them in Juno or Indigo. As you understood, TP makes dependency resolution independent of IDE, so I can't see any reason why this would not work. Did you give it try?
                
> unified.target appears broken
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-12307
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12307
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: target-platform
>    Affects Versions: 3.4.x
>         Environment: Either installed Eclipse Indigo or Juno
>            Reporter: Paul Richardson
>            Assignee: Nick Boldt
>             Fix For: 3.4.0.M1
>
>         Attachments: jbds-target-46269.png, multiple-target-46269.png, unified-target-46269.png
>
>
> Use of the unified.target fails as PDE target platform for both Indigo and Juno.
> *Indigo IDE*
> Use of the trunk version of unified.target results in org.lucene.core 3.5-4 not being found, which is true since only version 2.91 is available in the update site - http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/target-platform_3.4.juno.SR0/latest/plugins
> *Juno IDE*
> Use of the trunk version of unified.target results in package org.xmlpull.mxp1 not being found as a requirement of XStream.
> Both errors imply an incomplete target platform but does the fact that they are different errors imply that plugins in the installed IDE are assumed to be there?
> Should it not be possible to take an eclipse Indigo and develop against a Juno target platform? 

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