Hi John, Sven

Thanks. It appears the double package provider is not a major concern, so I've done my job by raising the possible issue.

OCL was easily fixed by changing the require bundle from com.google.collect to com.google.guava.

    Regards

        Ed Willink

On 16/12/2011 06:28, Sven Efftinge wrote:
Ed,

No they are not interchangeable, which is how I came across the problem.

They both do magic ClassLoader wizardry to support injection, and so when some 
plugins use variant A and dependent plugins use variant B the end result is a 
Guice class injection failure.
you were talking about google collect and guava. It seems like you are 
confusing them with guice now?
I also don't understand what kind of class loader magic you are referring to.
Which bundles exactly cause the problem?

For OCL, the problem was avoidable. Xtext uses variant A and OCL's extended 
Xtext used variant B, so an M4a OCL build corrects it.

However it may not be avoidable tomorrow, because Acceleo also uses variant B, 
so if I have a plugin dependent on both Acceleo and Xtext, my plugin must use 
both variant A and B.
com.google.common.collect is exported in two different versions from two 
different bundles. Apart from a single method the newer version from guava is 
are 100% backwards compatible.
So Xtext and Acceleo should work find with guava on the class path.

 From a different perspective, it seems a break in binary compatibility. Since 
both packages are available somewhere in the staging repository, P2's standard 
'find the missing bits' enables an Xtext editor that hasn't been fully rebuilt 
to install correctly but fail at run time.
If you have a require-bundle import to the old google-collect you need to make 
sure that the bundle is there.
If you have an import package both should work fine (unless you use the method 
mentioned above)

Sven
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