Re: [equinox-dev] Incubator commit rights for Kim Horne

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

Tom

Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>
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10/23/2006 09:47 PM

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Subject	[equinox-dev] Incubator commit rights for Kim Horne

The 3.3 plan 
        http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_3.html
has an item related to customization 
        https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=154099
Kim Horne (UI team) has been investigating some techniques for transforming
plugin.xml files and thus the registry contributions they contain. Basically
this amounts to a mechanism for spec'ing an XSLT style sheet and then running
the plugin.xmls through the transformer as they are loaded. See
        http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Product_Customization
 Kim has offered to contribute this to Equinox.  Pretty cool.  But
wait, it gets better. 

When you stand back from those details, it appears that there are several
other things that could be "customized".  Manifest.mf for
one.  Code for another.  The Equinox incubator already includes
a work area related to Aspects.  The proposal here is that the scope
of that work be broadened to include transformation of other artifacts.
 In addition to the specific transformation mechansms discussed, Kim
would like to investigate a customization brokering service that would
match transformers to transformations and transformees.  This notion
would, for example, allow for a manifest customization mechanism to be
plugged in.  Ideally we would also be able to phrase code customization
using this mechanism.  This may involve AspectJ weaving or some other
mechanism (e.g., for mapping class references when packages are renamed).

In any event, all of these things are in the Equinox domain and Kim is
offering to drive at least part of this effort.  To facilitate that,
I propose adding Kim as a committer on the Equinox Incubator component.
 Please respond to this list with your votes.

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