Re: [ecf-dev] Why does the httpclient4 feature require source bundles?

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott,

Sure, I can help. The first step is to create a specific source feature 
for the feature in question and then move the source bundles over to 
that feature. That way, the p2.core feature (and users of it) would not 
automatically include the source. Next step would be for the feature 
that really needs the source (the sdk feature?) to include your new 
source feature. Or perhaps there's a p2.core.source feature? In that 
case it would be the natural place for inclusion of your source feature.

- thomas

On 2014-06-28 01:06, Scott Lewis wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I checked the git commit records, in the comment I refer to this bug 
> comment:
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=409787#c27
>
> And as I recall there was also a lot of discussion at the time on 
> source inclusion in bug
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=419647
>
> Upshot:  It may not have been the best decision for the general case 
> (non-Eclipse products), but at the time I believe I was thinking of 
> the Eclipse SDK product needs and trying to get a platform milestone 
> completed.
>
> With some consulting/assistance from you on the Buckminster needs on 
> our end (e.g. including these source bundles in our repo, even if not 
> in the feature) I would be willing to work with the SDK folks to 
> change things in a future version (ECF has plans for a 3.9.0 release 
> as soon as OSGi RS/RSA specs are final).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
> On 6/27/2014 2:04 PM, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > I have a hard time understanding why any product needs to contain 
> > sources from Apache projects. If they were offered in a separate 
> > feature, yeah perhaps, but still, this is not Eclipse source and I 
> > don't see any other features including external sources.
> >
> > - thomas
> >
> > On 2014-06-27 18:26, Scott Lewis wrote:
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > >
> > > On 6/27/2014 8:45 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have some problems packaging a product that uses the p2.core 
> > > > feature. It includes the 
> > > > org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.httpclient4.feature which in turn 
> > > > includes both source and binary features for a group of org.apache 
> > > > bundles. Why does this feature include the source bundles? 
> > >
> > > I think that this was how David/Platform had to configure things 
> > > with Tycho in order to get source bundles included for the SDK. See 
> > > [1] for the coordination bug wrt feature refactoring.
> > >
> > > You also might want to ask David Williams directly (or on 
> > > cross-projects, whichever you are most comfortable with).
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
> > > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=409787
> > >
> > > > It's really problematic because I can't get rid of them unless I 
> > > > create a copy of the feature and then also create copy of the 
> > > > p2.core feature that includes it.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Thomas Hallgren
> > > >
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