Re: [platform-ui-dev] Shipping activities?

[Andre Weinand <weinand@xxxxxxx>]

> Aren't JDT and PDE "products" built on top of the platform the same way CDT
> is? If JDT and PDE don't provide "Developing Java" and "Developing Plug-ins"
> activities, doesn't that mean they're not playing the game the way we expect
> others to? (And isn't that bad?)

Yes, and no.
You are right in that we are not playing the game we expect others to.
However, when we did Activities we had envisioned to provide support 
for reducing the UI of the layers sitting on top of Eclipse. In 
addition one important aspect of activities was that not the 
component owner would had to define the activities, but a downstream 
product manager could do after the fact.

But I agree that it would make a lot of sense to define some 
activities in Ecipse too (at least for testing or pedagogical 
purposes).

--andre