[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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Spring & Mylyn are examples of where the 3rd party feature(s) provide more than we want to include; thus, we either wrap their plugins (mylyn) or a subset of their features (Spring) to restrict what the customer gets on installation.

IMHO, this is a better approach than just saying "go install it yourself" or pointing at the 3rd party site directly. 

If we're going to take the time to provide our own mirror of the bits (for the purposes of controlling what appears in Central and on Extras), why not take the extra branding/control step and wrap w/ features too?
                
> 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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