[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-26673) Dependency on org.eclipse.rse.ui 3.3 affects installation

[Nick Boldt (Jira)]

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Nick Boldt commented on JBIDE-26673:
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I'm baffled. RSE is a "dead" project (insofar as there's one active committer, just keeping the builds going -- me! -- with infrequent contributions from Jeff) but instead of IBM *contributing* to it they've *_forked it internally and updated it to 4.6_*? 

How is that commitment to open source? 
* https://www.itprotoday.com/linux/ibm-open-source-success-requires-give-and-take 
* https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-s-5-biggest-statements-at-the-red-hat-summit 
Please ask your colleagues at IBM to contribute to the RSE project at Eclipse, instead of internal forking. The rising tide won't lift all our boats if you're in your super secret submarine. :(

As an aside, if you look at the history of the project from the late 3.x to the current 4.x, you'll see that most of the recent changes are just upversions and tweaks to keep it compiling against the latest Eclipse. There have been no API breaks in moving from 3.x to 4.x, just version number alignment between TM and RSE projects after they were merged into one to break cyclic dependencies and make maintenance easier.

For example:

https://git.eclipse.org/c/tm/org.eclipse.tm.git/commit/?id=0650a822263d577fc36276ba2db8e39e2a629cff
https://git.eclipse.org/c/tm/org.eclipse.tm.git/diff/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.ui/pom.xml?id=0650a822263d577fc36276ba2db8e39e2a629cff
and
https://git.eclipse.org/c/tm/org.eclipse.tm.git/commit/?id=c49471f29d84b0933cd199553116c7b51fcfc9ff
https://git.eclipse.org/c/tm/org.eclipse.tm.git/diff/rse/features/org.eclipse.rse-feature/feature.xml?id=c49471f29d84b0933cd199553116c7b51fcfc9ff

https://git.eclipse.org/c/tm/org.eclipse.tm.git/commit/?id=032879627037f0e102629882e92b9b3a3be7aa37
https://git.eclipse.org/c/tm/org.eclipse.tm.git/commit/?id=c78e6651377d1670433668ed749c6e4eec3f4a4c

> Dependency on org.eclipse.rse.ui 3.3 affects installation
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-26673
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-26673
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>         Environment: This happens on eclipse Luna and Oxygen installing from the marketplace or directly from eclipse when creating a new JBOSS server
>            Reporter: Manuel Parrao
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 4.12.x
>
>
> I have a product that uses different plugins and some of them failed  to be installed if JBOSS tools are installed first since JBOSS tools has a dependency on org.eclipse.rse.ui V3.3 and the other plugins I use work with org.eclipse.rse.ui V4.4 and org.eclipse.rse.ui V4.6. On the other hand if I install first the other plugins and then try to install JBOSS tools, JBOSS does not get installed due the same dependency issue.
> Would it be possible to modify the manifest to accept org.eclipse.rse.ui 3.3 or later?



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