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| Summary: | [plan item] RCP support | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] PDE | Reporter: | Jim des Rivieres <jeem> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P4 | CC: | bernard.lumbroso, bogofilter+eclipse.org, djb, dorisviv, ed.burnette, evan.williams, jeffmcaffer, kehn, Konstantin.Scheglov, sascha.gaertner, scottf, vimalvachhani |
| Version: | 3.0 | Keywords: | plan |
| Target Milestone: | 3.1 M6 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Bug Depends on: | 49592, 53439, 53468, 60000, 72678, 73541, 73818, 73820 | ||
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Description
Jim des Rivieres
PDE support for RCP will indeed be a VERY good thing! Besides the proposed PDE support for RCP I was also thinking of making the PDE aware of general RCP-compatiblity issues of eclipse plugins. In particular, I am thinking about compability between general plugins written for the normal eclipse IDE 3.0 (for software developers) and new applications based on Eclipse RCP. I imagine that some (but definitely not all) general plugins for the "normal" eclipse IDE may also be useful for some applications based on the RCP. For example a "XML editor" plugin may be useful for both the "normal" eclipse IDE AND for a number of rich clients based on the eclipse platform. Therefore, even for non-RCP plugin-work the PDE should be able to warn if plugins are using references to IDE-only objects that will cause the plugin to be incompatible with RCP. *** Bug 71063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This item will be marked as resolved when the following bugs/features are addressed: bug 49592: RCP deployment solution. bug 53468: Enhance the New Plug-in Project wizard to create new RCP apps (done). bug 60000: A comprehensive RCP template bug 73818: Product tooling and branding bug 73820: Contextual runtime workbench launches. bug 72678: Support branding/splash screen when launching RCP apps. Two more items of relevance to this plan item: bug 73541: Introduce the notion of a PDE "working set", which would greatly simplify the task of hand-selecting plugins for RCP testing. bug 53439: Introducing an on-demand validation function to the runtime workbench launch configuration to ensure that the list of plugins selected by the user is complete, etc. This function would use the Platform/Runtime state so all problems that might be encountered at startup can be foreseen before launching. Can these be added to the list of dependent bugs? Also, is it ok for non-eclipse devs to set the depends and blocks fields? Added the dependencies as requested. Fields that must not be used by non-developers are the Priority and Target Milestone. As for the depends/blocks, I'm not sure. Perhaps Jim knows more about bugzilla process/etiquette. This plan item is complete as we now have a solid story for RCP development and packaging. It also includes the successful resolution of bug 85153. Of course, we always welcome additional feature requests. If you have any, please open separate bug reports and they will be evaluated on an individual basis. Jim, please update the project plan item entry accordingly. thank you. |