Marshall wrote: > 1) Why are the URLs for feature JARs and plugins so radically different? > Shouldn't the features / plugins dirs be in sync with each other?
>>The URLs are based on history which really doesn't matter at this point. This could potentially change. >>>I guess my main question here was why aren't they in a standard update site format so users can point Eclipse >>>their independently of ATF (or any other tools that depend on XULRunner for that matter) They are available in a way that can be used independetly from ATF. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/xulrunner/eclipse is the update site URl. Now the way xulrunners builds are released is that each new build goes in a new directory. Yet the update site need to have a stable location. Therefore: the site and features have been released at the under ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/xulrunner/eclipse the plugins are available in each release folders, and the archive tags in the site.xml points to the right plugins. This is not perfect but it works correctly. > 2) Why is XULRunner packaged as 3 seperate features? This becomes hell > for dependency management purposes. It was easier for me to just write > one simple feature and put platform/OS conditions on each XULRunner > plugin. You can find my feature.xml here: > - > http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/vpe/features/org. > jboss.tools.xulrunner.feature/feature.xml >>I'm not a feature expert, so there may be a way around my concerns when just having one XULRunner feature. There is no need to have three features. My mistake, as I was managing releases at different paces for each OS. We can very much have one feature with OS filters. > 3) Why isn't ATF depending on XULRunner feature/plugins like it is with > XPCOM? With the feature linked above we were able to have our feature > depend on it, and use external plugin/feature jar linking (ala the > current ATF update site) to have Eclipse auto-check XULRunner when the > user presses "Select Required" My comment ther is th same as Bob's. Xulrunner may be already installed. But now we will soon be able to re-distribute Xulrunner @ eclipse, we probably could update the feture and create a dep. Cordially -- Philippe _______________________________________________ atf-dev mailing list atf-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/atf-dev
