[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-2168) Review and improve mechanism to provide 3rd-party features

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBDS-2168:
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So what I'm getting from this is that the preference is to have MULTIPLE connectors on Central for the following feature groups:

* Mylyn (no Git, no SVN)
* Mylyn for Git (includes Git so it'll be installed if not already)
* Git (no Mylyn)
* Mylyn for SVN (includes SVN so it'll be installed if not already)
* SVN (no Mylyn)

That gives everyone the options they need to install any or all of the 5 pieces they might want.

Related note: more combinations == more com.jboss.jbds.* features we have to maintain as mylyn requires a wrapper so it won't include extraneous stuff we don't want to provide.
                
> Review and improve mechanism to provide 3rd-party features
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-2168
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2168
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: 3rdPartyDependencies, Build
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>            Assignee: Mickael Istria
>             Fix For: 6.x
>
>
> Currently, we wrap (in a 1-1 mapping) most 3rd-party features as "requirements" into features of ours. It allows to show our license and lable when installing.
> We should think about other approaches, and choose the best one:
> * Get rid of our features and directly include 3rd-party features in site. Keep our features only when we want an assembly of several 3rd-party features (we do it for springide)
> * Prefer inclusion over requirement so that we can restrict the version we allow for 3rd-party features. If someone wants a different one, he'll have to uninstall the JBDS "supported" feature first.

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