Re: [ptp-dev] Rephraser Engine missing from PTP 4 I201001012201 build

[Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Jeffrey Overbey wrote:

>> I see someone changed the rephraser engine feature version back to 2.0
>> and added it into the site.xml, so hopefully it is working ok now. For Helios,
> 
> Well, it was trying to exactly match "2.0.0.qualifier", but hopefully
> it will work (finally) in this week's build...
> 
>> I think the installation process should be as simple as possible, and avoid
>> confusing users with lots of separate features. So I'd like to include the
>> rephraser engine as part of the photran feature so it gets installed
>> automatically. We can still keep it as a separate feature in the PTP
>> update site. Are you ok with this?
> 
> The installer picks up the dependency automatically if it's a separate
> feature -- similarly, it will automatically install CDT if the user
> doesn't have it -- so I don't think this is really an issue.

If that's the case then we may not need to do anything. We could test this by removing it from the PTP update site and see if Photran still installs correctly.

> Nevertheless, if you want to make it part of the Photran feature,
> that's fine... but will Eclipse still recognize that the
> "org.eclipse.rephraserengine" feature is installed, or will those
> plug-ins instead be part of the "org.eclipse.photran" feature?  We
> have two other refactoring tools that depend on the Rephraser Engine,
> and they'll probably go public sometime later this year (2011 at the
> latest)... I just want to make sure (1) they can co-exist with Photran
> (2) but they will only require the Rephraser feature, not all of
> Photran.

I don't think this would be a problem since I was just planning to add the rephraser engine feature to the photran feature. Since it would still be a feature in it's own right, it should be recognized by Eclipse. We may not need to do anything if the above works, however.

Greg