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[pde-dev] Plug-in Dependency Visualization Tool (M1 Released)
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Thanks for pointing this out Jeff, and sorry for any confusion.
Jeff's right, my work is still in incubation and this is simply the
first publicly available build (hence 0.1) and the code has not been
reviewed in any deep way. So I would like to recast my event as: "I
have made the first milestone of the plug-in dependency visualization
tool available". I have updated the website and the N&N.
Chris, I have also update the update site and dependency feature so they
now say (incubation). They update site is in
pde-incubator/visualization/releng. Can you double check that I did
this right, and if so, post a new update site? I left the version
number as 0.1 and changed the date on the feature.
Again, sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
Cheers,
Ian
Jeff McAffer wrote:
Ian,
Turns out that using 0.1 and saying it is a "release" is counter to
the Eclipse development process. The implication is that the code has
been legally reviewed and gone through a release review etc. This is
not hte case for this tool nor is it, I assume, your intention. You
need to give some external indication that the code is still in
development and has not gone through the various reviews to be
considered a "release". Typically projects end up talking about
Milestones. It is widely understood and accepted that milestones have
not been reviewed in a deep way.
So, in your case you need to recast the recent event as "making the
first milestone of the visualization work available". This should not
impact the code or features as they have whatever version number they
have according to the plugin/feature version numbering scheme. You
should update your web site to call this M1, change "release" to
"available" and perhaps follow up your blog with something saying that
this is not an official release but rather the first milestone...
Sorry for the hassle but it is important that Eclipse consumers have a
consistent experience wrt legal and quality when getting things from
Eclipse. That is why we have the development process.
Jeff
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[pde-dev] Plug-in Dependency Visualization Tool
As part of my time at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies and my work on
Google Summer of Code, I have developed a Plug-in Dependency
Visualization tool as part of the PDE Incubator project. I was first
recruited by Wassim and I have been working closely with Chris Aniszczyk
(my SoC mentor). The project's website is at [1].
[1]http://www.eclipse.org/pde/incubator/dependency-visualization/
I have made an initial version available on an update site at
eclipse.org [2] (Thanks Chris!). It works with Eclipse 3.3 or greater
(I tested it on 3.4 M2 and it seems to work fine). I have also put
together a New and Noteworthy to highlight some of the features [3].
[2]*http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/pde/incubator/visualization/site
*[3]http://www.eclipse.org/pde/incubator/dependency-visualization/new/index.php
It is pretty easy to use. Simply load the view (Visualizations->Graph
Plug-in Dependencies), and right click on the canvas. Then select the
bundle whose dependencies you wish you see.
If anyone has thoughts, suggestions, ideas, please feel free to open a
bug report. There is already a good suggestion to show extension point
use.
Cheers,
Ian
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PhD Candidate, University of Victoria
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http://irbull.blogspot.com/
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