Niclas Hedhman wrote:
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 17:48, Richard S. Hall wrote:
Well, I don't look at this as a "should we support PDE or not" type of
argument.
Ok, let's extend the list;
1. Eclipse PDE is not happy with jars embedded in bundles. Is there a
requirement on bundles produced by the Felix community that these bundles do
not contain any embedded jars?
2. Eclipse PDE is incapable of handling the case when you call methods in a
superclass that is in a non-exported package, but the subclass(es) are in an
exported package. PDE complains about access restrictions where there are
none.
So, I still think there is a "general question" for this community to answer;
Is Eclipse PDE support a primary objective of this community?
Clearly it is not a primary objective, but if minor compromises can be
made to make it more possible, then that is fine. However, I don't think
our repository structure should be held hostage to it.
It doesn't really sound like the above issues are related to repository
structure, so I am still content to go ahead with making the repository
more hierarchical.
-> richard
I think this is important, since following the OSGi spec is not enough to be
PDE compatible, due to PDE bugs.
Cheers
