Re: [pde-dev] API tooling question

[Premek Brada <brada@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(sorry, reposting to the mailing list)

On 26.10.2010 14:32, Premek Brada wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for a reply. (after a pause caused by other work) I am still 
> getting the same behaviour on both a contrived trivial example and 
> when baselining an existing bundle application.
>
> On 12.10.2010 16:00, Darin Wright wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Now I expected that the changes in the interface would result in errors
> > > being reported for the ApiInterface class, since it clearly breaks
> > > compatibility with the baseline, and also for the manifest.  But 
> > > nothing
> > > happens, and when I manually run Compare with>  API baseline, "No
> > > changes have been found".
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?  (I have Eclipse 3.6.1 Build id: M20100909-0800
> > > from clean "Eclipse Classic" download)
> > How did you make the API baseline? Did you enable the project for API
> > analysis?
>
> Yes I did enable both the "API baseline" plugin project and the 
> "revision 2" project for API analysis.
>
> The baseline was created by assembling the bundle .jar via "File > 
> Export > Plugin dev > Deployable plugins" putting it in a 
> d:\tmp\plugins directory. Then, I defined a new API baseline 
> (Preferences > Plug-in dev > API Baselines) pointed to that directory.
>
> Basically, I tried to follow 
> http://www.eclipse-tips.com/tutorials/26-api-tooling-tutorial as well 
> as http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE/API_Tools/User_Guide with a trivial API 
> baseline.
>
> I captured a 10-min video showing the whole process, if that would 
> help please see 
> http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/~brada/tmp/eclipse-pde-api-tooling-problem.avi .
>
> > Note that the API baseline must contain all prerequisite bundles.
>
> What are the prerequisite bundles?  If the baseline bundles are 
> self-contained (do not declare any package or bundle imports outside 
> of their set), then I would assume no other bundles need to be part of 
> the baseline.
>
> Premek


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