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Bug 316884

Summary:	Add Xpand middleend and backend to the Helios update site
Product:	[Modeling] M2T	Reporter:	André Arnold <andre.arnold>
Component:	Xpand	Assignee:	Project Inbox <m2t.xpand-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P2	CC:	dennis.huebner, pelder.eclipse
Version:	1.0.0	Flags:	andre.arnold: helios+
Target Milestone:	SR1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description André Arnold

2010-06-15 07:50:24 EDT

The following features of M2T Xpand should become available on the Helios update site:

org.eclipse.xtend.backend.sdk (1.0.0)
org.eclipse.xtend.middleend.xpand.sdk (1.0.0)

The features are currently only available on the M2T Xpand update site beginning with the helios release.

Comment 1 Dennis Huebner

2010-06-15 08:08:16 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> The following features of M2T Xpand should become available on the Helios
> update site:
> 
> org.eclipse.xtend.backend.sdk (1.0.0)
> org.eclipse.xtend.middleend.xpand.sdk (1.0.0)
> 
> The features are currently only available on the M2T Xpand update site
> beginning with the helios release.

Adding new features to Helios is not a big deal, just adding two new 
entries in the m2t-xpand.build file. But I don't think that it will be 
approved by pmc's. There for, I propose SR1 as the target milestone.

Comment 2 Paul Elder

2010-06-15 09:52:38 EDT

I do not see this as a problem. As I understand it, the purpose of the Helios site is to allow discovery of features by end users. In past releases we have been encouraged to provide a limited number of features published to the simultaneous release. Take a look at how many features EMF Core publishes to Helios (one) versus how many are published on the modeling aggregation site (too many to count).

To me, it seems unlikely that any end user would want to install only the back-end and middle-end features. Listing them in the Helios site would only result in confusion and clutter.

Comment 3 Dennis Huebner

2010-06-15 16:13:56 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> The following features of M2T Xpand should become available on the Helios
> update site:
> 
> org.eclipse.xtend.backend.sdk (1.0.0)
> org.eclipse.xtend.middleend.xpand.sdk (1.0.0)
> 
> The features are currently only available on the M2T Xpand update site
> beginning with the helios release.

André,
Backend & Co. is now availble under http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/updates/ (modeling aggregation site).

Regards,
Dennis.

Comment 4 André Arnold

2010-06-15 17:36:26 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> I do not see this as a problem. As I understand it, the purpose of the Helios
> site is to allow discovery of features by end users. In past releases we have
> been encouraged to provide a limited number of features published to the
> simultaneous release. Take a look at how many features EMF Core publishes to
> Helios (one) versus how many are published on the modeling aggregation site
> (too many to count).
> 
> To me, it seems unlikely that any end user would want to install only the
> back-end and middle-end features. Listing them in the Helios site would only
> result in confusion and clutter.

Paul's point seems reasonable to me. Hence, I think we can close this bug. Maybe, adding the Xpand Middleend and Backend to the Xpand SDK would be a better solution.