Re: [ptp-dev] org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.core in org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync-featu

[Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Features are just for packaging. It's really the plugin manifests that determine the plugin dependency requirements. I believe the feature dependencies are only used during the build, and possibly when determining the requirements when installing plugins.

On Sep 1, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> Okay.  Here is another dependency question (I'm afraid I don't understand eclipse deps very well).
> 
> org.eclipse.ptp feature has:
> 
>   <includes
>         id="org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.remotetools"
>         version="0.0.0"/>
> 
> This ends up putting /usr/share/eclipse/dropins/org.eclipse.ptp/features/org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.remotetools_5.0.0.201109011153 into my main ptp package.  It's feature.xml file has:
> 
>   <requires>
> ...
>      <import plugin="org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.core" version="1.1.0" match="greaterOrEqual"/>
> 
> Which to me implies that the main PTP feature requires ptp.rdt.   Seem correct?

Well, it requires ptp.rdt.core . That doesn't mean all of RDT is required however. Only the requisite plugins will be installed if this feature is installed.

> 
> It is also troubling to me that there is dependency information in the feature.xml files and in the MANIFEST.MF files that are not necessarily in sync.
> 
> e.g. org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.fortran feature.xml only lists the plugin org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.ui.fortran but that plugin has:
> 
> Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.cdt.core,
> org.eclipse.cdt.ui,
> org.eclipse.core.runtime,
> org.eclipse.ui,
> org.eclipse.ui.ide,
> org.eclipse.core.resources,
> org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.core,
> org.eclipse.ptp.rdt.sync.ui,
> org.eclipse.photran.cdtinterface;bundle-version="7.0.0";resolution:=optional
> 
> which again means it depends on ptp.rdt.sync (among others)

Correct. The sync.fortran feature adds synchronization support for Fortran projects. It requires the base synchronization support to work.

Greg