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Re: [tools-pmc] FW: [CQ 8776] ANTLR plugin for Eclipse 4.1.3

My personal opinion is to go with 1.
For the sake of not having in the git repos smth that's unacceptable to ship.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elemér Lelik" <elemer.lelik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tools-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 11:46:05 AM
> Subject: [tools-pmc] FW: [CQ 8776] ANTLR plugin for Eclipse 4.1.3
> 
> Fyi
> 
> Please  let me have your  opinion on this
> 
> 
> Thank you and best regards
> 
> Elemer
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: emo-ip-team@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:emo-ip-team@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:45 AM
> To: Elemér Lelik
> Subject: [CQ 8776] ANTLR plugin for Eclipse 4.1.3
> 
> http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8776
> 
> 
> Elemer Lelik <elemer.lelik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>            Severity|awaiting_committer          |new
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> --- Comment #10 from Elemer Lelik <elemer.lelik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  2014-12-11
> 04:44:30 --- Hi Sharon,
> 
> thank you.
> 
> Well, that's unfortunate.
> 
> We will look into a technical solution to replace this dependency with one
> acceptable by the Eclipse Foundation.
> 
> Technically , this dependency affects only part of the code :
> the Titan core and the Titan toolset are unaffected, while the Eclipse IDE
> plug-ins depend  on antlr during build and runtime.
> 
> This means that there might be a number of possible scenarios to continue:
> 
> 1) we remove the affected source code from the initial contribution and
> continue with what remains ; the Titan core is self-contained, it does not
> depend on the IDE and can be used without it meanwhile we rework the plug-in
> code and when considered acceptable , we re-submit it as an addition to the
> existing project
> 
> In this scenario, users will not be able to use the IDE plug-ins, at least
> initially.
> 
> 
> 2)we keep the source code of the plug-ins in the initial contribution  and
> obtain an approval for it, but we build no binaries for the plug-ins (hence
> antlr will not be distributed )
> meanwhile we rework the code , and resubmit the changes , possibly with a new
> CQ reflecting a new dependency
> 
> In this scenario , users will be able to build the IDE plug-ins from the
> source
> code , but they will have to acquire and install the "antlr  for eclipse "
> package.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please let me know if any of these scenarios are acceptable, or there is a
> course of action you would suggest.
> 
> 
> Please refer this to the PMC as well.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Elemer
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings Elemer;
> 
> My apologies for not noticing that you referenced Antlr 2.7.6 when you
> created
> the new attachment.  Unfortunately, if any content from version 2.7.6 of
> Antlr
> (generic Antlr) is included, it will be problematic.
> 
> From an Eclipse distribution standpoint, only version 3.x and above are
> approved as the Antlr project lead rewrote Antlr v.2.x due to unclear
> provenance.
> 
> I'll stand by to hear from you.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sharon
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