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===2 June 2007===
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At this weekly meeting we tried to decide on exactly what the term "service" means, but we decided to save the discussion for a later date. We also decided on a preliminary architecture for the Discovery plug-in: Discovery will be an OSGi bundle that connects with other service finders through the OSGi services API, but connects with service consumers through Eclipse Extension Points.
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===August 19 2007===
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<onnadi3> thanks
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<onnadi3> Good day, lemmy, rcjsuen
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<lemmy> I'm not sure, did I send my proposed meeting agenda out?
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: Hi
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<onnadi3> I didn't get yours...I sent one out, though
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<lemmy> Hi
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<lemmy> I thought that one was in response to mine.
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<lemmy> Do we have an agenda?
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<lemmy> it's out
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<onnadi3> Wwe need to figure out what I should do to round up before the submission date
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<onnadi3> Could you please send it again? I can't find it in mly inbox
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<onnadi3> Which is tomorrow, I believe
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<lemmy> I've sent it a minute ago
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<lemmy> Yep, tomorrow is pencils down
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<onnadi3> got it
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<onnadi3> 1. Upload my code to code.google.com
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<lemmy> it overlaps with your email
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<onnadi3> 2. Make the changes you guys suggested to the documentation
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<onnadi3> No problem. Yours is bigger so let's go over the technical aspects of yours, get to p. number 2 in mine, and then move on to the organizational issues
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<onnadi3> No. 3 would be post on my blog about the wonders of Discovery, but you guys haven't commented on the draft I put up
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<onnadi3> So, first point: "What exactly is a "service" anyway? (Better term...)"
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<onnadi3> Should we just skip it?
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<lemmy> a minute... I'm in voip call currently.
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<lemmy> we should stick to the plan and try to get as much pr as possible.
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<onnadi3> Oh...sorry
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<onnadi3> okey-doke
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<lemmy> no problem
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<rcjsuen> yup, I agree
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<lemmy> remy: you're with us?
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<lemmy> and the comment is still on my todo list.
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<rcjsuen> yes
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: I left a one sentence comment like 10 minutes ago
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<lemmy> great
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<onnadi3> Hmm, perhaps bugzilla was still down, then
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<lemmy> onnadi3: first point is about deciding if a service needs an identifier. for that we should know what a "service" might be
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<rcjsuen> It was synchronizing this mornign.
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<lemmy> Suppose plug-in A wants to discover a JDK and calls discovery. plug-in B wants to discover a JDK too, but how would discovery know that it can return the results from the previous run.
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<lemmy> 1. Upload my code to code.google.com. Is there anything to arrange for?  
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Services can be binaries, or ports where a daemon is listening
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<onnadi3> Not really. They just want to see what you've done all summer.  
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<lemmy> that sounds pretty much like a technical description of a service.
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: I don't see any need to mention SoC. It was just a vehicle for achieving our ends :-)
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<lemmy> s/that/this
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<benny`work> onnadi3, do you know where to upload the stuff? can't find anything about where to do it
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<onnadi3> Hmmm, if we assume for the moment that plug-in A does not care about version, then the name of the binary can be its identifier
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<onnadi3> benny`work: This article explains everything http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/midterm-survey-information-2
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<lemmy> Will this work for a daemon running on a remote host?
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<benny`work> onnadi3, thanks
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<lemmy> You don't have a name and only a simple port number.
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<onnadi3> lemmy, rcjsuen: Anything else you'd like me to do before pencils down?
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<onnadi3> Hmm, that was why I tried using URIs in my sample implementation. That way, we're not restricted to only local binaries or ports
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<rcjsuen> Don't think so.
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<lemmy> What about URIs and versions?
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<rcjsuen> maybe generate API docs but I don't know where to host that
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<onnadi3> That's a bit trickier
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<onnadi3> cool
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<onnadi3> IIRC, GNU Autoconf somehow doesn't bother about version numbers
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<kynes> pombreda, ping
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<onnadi3> It only tests for features
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<onnadi3> Well, I think that's all that's on the agenda
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<onnadi3> And that's kind of what I would like to do also since it will simplify matters a lot
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<onnadi3> IS there any need for us to meet tomorrow?
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<rcjsuen> No, autoconf can check versions
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<rcjsuen> I don't think so.
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<lemmy> Also if I create a JAVA5 project, I want Eclipse to suggest only >=JAVA5 JDKs
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<onnadi3> Alrighty. I'll shoot y'all an e-mail when I've uploaded everything
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<onnadi3> true true
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Aug 19 13:45:58  onnadi3 is sad that it's all over
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<lemmy> or foundation 1.0. ;)
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: Thank you for all your hard work.
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<onnadi3> :-) or that
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: Thank *you* for lurking on IRC all the time and answering all questions :-)
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<lemmy> Btw. foundation 1.0 makes it even more complicated because it represents a group of possible jdks.
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<rcjsuen> Just trying to pay back to the Eclipse community ;)
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<rcjsuen> Well, there are no URIs in F1.0 anyway.
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: I see you approached the occasional straggler also, thanks
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<onnadi3> Yeah. But we can still use logical URIs
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<onnadi3> But I guess the main problem is...how to detect version?
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<onnadi3> Well, I better finish rounding up my SoC. Markus, Remy, I'll talk to you all later
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<lemmy> detecting a version is really specific to a binary.
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<lemmy> ttyl
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<lemmy> I'd assume it is something specified by a consumer.
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<onnadi3> Do you know how Autoconf does it? I'm rebrowsing their docs right now
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<onnadi3> but...how would that help GNU Autoconf find the bin? I'd hope they didn't call <binary> --version
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<rcjsuen> Well, not everything has a binary, so that wouldn't make sense.
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<onnadi3> Yeah. And i think if you ant to add a test for sthg it doesn't know about, you have to write the test yourself
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<rcjsuen> Define "doesn't know about"
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<onnadi3> Well, let's say configure only knew how to detect JDKs, then if you wanted it to detect GCC, you'd have to write your own test for GCC
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<onnadi3> I think
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<rcjsuen> hm
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<lemmy> configure shouldn't know how to detect jdks. It should know how to discover a specific resource with given attributes.
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<lemmy> a consumer passes those attribute to configure to utilize the discover facilities.
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<lemmy> discovery facilities could be a registry finder, a fs finder, a port checker...
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<lemmy> the consumer would know how to use these finders to find what he needs.
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<lemmy> my point about a service identifier is to have a globally valid identifier for a given service/resource.
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<lemmy> however there is a problem. if a second consumer tries to discover a certain resource that has already been identified and discovery would just return already known results, it might miss resources which would have been discovered because of much better heuristics by the second consumer.
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<onnadi3> Will it be possible to assign a unique identifier to every program?
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<lemmy> Would be great if we would already have such identifiers.
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<lemmy> Or at least a schema by which we could generate reproducible identifiers.
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: Hm, that's an interesting scenario
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: a simple and stupid solution would be a "force" flag to always rediscover even with previous results.
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<lemmy> Having identifiers also allows for consumers to not provide discovery rules. They would reuse already exiting discovery rules without shipping them.
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<lemmy> shipping/including...
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<onnadi3> So I guess the main problem now is how to incorporate version information into the "service" name in a standard way
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<onnadi3> Most (though not all) program I know use an increasing  numerical scheme for versioning so maybe all we have to do is concat the binary's name with its versio
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<onnadi3> Then we ca ntell if one version is greater or less than another
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<lemmy> Or have an identifier class with names and versions. ;)
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<lemmy> However, implementation doesn't really matter, does it?
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<lemmy> yet
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<onnadi3> Well...I was trying to make it general enough to also encompass ports (which do not have version information)
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<lemmy> The port doesn't, but the service behind it. :)
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<onnadi3> Wait. That's not true. There might be different versions of processes running at the same port
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<lemmy> For my web project I need Tomcat 5 and not 4. :)
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<onnadi3> Hmmm, so I guess it all boils down to finding binaries
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<onnadi3> Whether hidden behind an fs, or a port
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<lemmy> Though we are talking pretty much about semantics of  discovery results. Might it be more reasonable to provide a broad collection of finders and the consumer provides the semantics instead?
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<rcjsuen> I don't think that's unreasonable.
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<onnadi3> OK. So as you said earlier, discovery provides libraries for searching the fs, ports, registry etc. for whatever it is a consumer is looking for
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<lemmy> Well, those are just my thoughts. :)
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<onnadi3> They're good thoughts. I like the idea
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<onnadi3> We just have to solve the little details now
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<lemmy> normally the details bite us in the a**
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<onnadi3> We got all summer to get used to it :-)
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<lemmy> so we will file having service identifiers as should but currently as too hard to implement and move on to the next thing?
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<lemmy> like we've done with validation.
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<onnadi3> Well, i was thinking of defining service as sthg like "any resource that can be identified by a URI"
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<onnadi3> (implementation of URI may vary)
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<lemmy> I'm a little bit short on time currently, but maybe we can open a list on the wiki with "must", "should" and "nice to have" to keep track of the features?
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<rcjsuen> Yes, probably better to move on. We don't want this meeting to on forever on this thing
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<onnadi3> Alrighty
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<onnadi3> Next point, "Extension Points vs. OSGi (declarative?) services"
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<onnadi3> Do y'all think it is worth it to write custom tools for dealing with OSGi services?
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<lemmy> first of all, we don't need to decide "either/or". We can use both.
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<onnadi3> Well, I thought the only place we need them is for connecting customer plugins with Discovery
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<onnadi3> And once we're using XPs, there won't be any need for OSGi services
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<lemmy> XPs?
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<rcjsuen> eXtension Points
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<lemmy> What's wrong with EPs? ;)
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<lemmy> XP is already used by extreme programming. :)
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<lemmy> ...in my head that is.
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: same
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<lemmy> onnadi3: writing service doesn't really require tooling (maybe for declarative service it does though).
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<onnadi3> Yeah. For declarative services...so you don't think we'll need dynamic discovery of system resources aka Services?
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<lemmy> My only point is, that EPs have more dependencies whereas OSGi services are pretty low level.
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<onnadi3> What kind of dependencies?
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<onnadi3> (I'm not attached to EPs. I jsut want whatever is simplest)
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<lemmy> Using services for low level API might therefore be useful. For high level EPs are a better fit.
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: Well, a lot more people are familiar with extension points anyway.
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<lemmy> I'm just aiming at this provisioning angle...
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<lemmy> In provisioning you might not have access to org.eclipse.*
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<rcjsuen> looks like org.eclipse.equinox.common, runtime_registry_compatibility.jar, org.eclipse.equinox.registry
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<rcjsuen> org.eclipse.osgi.services, org.eclipse.osgi
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<lemmy> org.eclipse.osgi? That's new to me
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<lemmy> Is it the plug-in or package name?
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<rcjsuen> well, bundle symbolic name is org.eclipse.osgi
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<rcjsuen> but sure there are org.osgi.* stuff and also org.eclipse.osgi.* stuff
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<lemmy> I'd suggest to hook the finders to the base discovery via services and offer services and EPs to consumers.
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<lemmy> This would certainly require another plug-in on top of base discovery that encapsulates EPs.
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<lemmy> http://www.skrbl.com/44702430
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<onnadi3> what do you mean encapsulate EPs? Wouldn't I just provide the Extension Points and then consumers can write extensions for them?
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<lemmy> bear with my terrible first grade painting skills. :)
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<lemmy> "EP connector" is necessary so that base can be used in a pure OSGi environment.
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<rcjsuen> I see your point.
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<lemmy> Maybe this is overengineering.
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<lemmy> however foundation 1.0 already leads the path in this direction.
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Could you please explain what provisioning does? I didn't really understand their Wiki page
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<lemmy> I don't think their use cases have been fixed yet. :
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<lemmy> Simplified it deals with bringing Eclipse to the customer.
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<lemmy> Eclipse in this context doesn't mean the SDK.
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<lemmy> But software components (== bundles == plug-ins) in general.
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<lemmy> One of the goals of provisioning is to redo the UpdateManager.
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<lemmy> And to get rid of "features". ;o
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<onnadi3> So its just a reimplementation of parts of Eclipse??
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<rcjsuen> Except something-not-named-features-but-acts-just-like-features will probably remain.
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<lemmy> *g*
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<onnadi3> Well, if provisioning is important enough then we might as well use OSGi services and EPs
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<lemmy> It is up to us how important we rate them. I tend to rate fundamental facilities very high though.
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<lemmy> But this isn't carved in stone
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<lemmy> onnadi3: I feel like you dislike services? ;)
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<lemmy> s/I feel/It feels
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<onnadi3> No, I don't. They seem a bit more straightforward than EPs
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<onnadi3> You simply call a method to register your bundle. that's it
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<onnadi3> But in sum, I'm worried because I don't understand what Provisioning is good for but it sounds like it is worth the effort to use services and EPs
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<lemmy> We might want to bring Pascal into the discussion.
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<rcjsuen__> My connection problems are kicking in.
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<lemmy> :(
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen, rcjsuen__:There're are two of you :-)
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<onnadi3> Anyway, I think we've kinna beaten this topic to death. We should probably go with OSGi and EPs for now, and then if necessary, revisit the issue
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<lemmy> I agree, and at first the effort for correcting our decision isn't to high.
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<lemmy> too
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<lemmy> Speaking about IRC connection problems, I could offer both of you an account for my IRC proxy. This should solve your firewall problems too, since it runs on 57000
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<onnadi3> that would be nice
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<lemmy> It keeps a buffer of the last n lines so you don't miss anything while you're disconnected.
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<lemmy> onnadi3: OK, I'll set it up then.
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<lemmy> Lets stick to the organizational topics, they seem to be easy. :)
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<onnadi3> And on that note, we can move to "      - Rules Engine
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<onnadi3>                - DSL vs. Rule Engines vs. anonymous Classes
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<onnadi3>                - JSR94 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=94)"
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<lemmy> onnadi3: what about syndicating your blog on the planet?
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<onnadi3> I already posted a bug report about it but I don't think anyone's looked at it yet :-(
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<rcjsuen__> onnadi3: Number?
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<lemmy> Great, so it should appear soon.
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<rcjsuen__> lemmy: did you talk to Gunnar/Chris directly or something?
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<lemmy> By meeting minutes I mean that we should try to summarize our meetings and post those to the mailing list/wiki. A simple chat log is way to verbose for outsides to read.
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<lemmy> Chris is currently on the road which might be the reason for the delay.
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<lemmy> If it isn't syndicated on Monday, we should ping them directly.
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<rcjsuen__> I was talking to Chris last night on Sametime
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<rcjsuen__> I think he was in the airport maybe or something
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: so you will take care of that issue? :)
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<rcjsuen__> lemmy: if onnadi3 gives me the bug #
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<lemmy> I don't have Sametime. ;)
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: I'm sure this can be arranged.
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<rcjsuen__> or i guess technically i don't need the bug # i can just give him the blog link
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<onnadi3> I'm searching for it....
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<rcjsuen__> but better that way since he can then resolve that bug
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<rcjsuen__> lemmy: i will ST him next time i see him and asusming he's not busy
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<rcjsuen__> he's a busy guy after all o.O
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<lemmy> who isn't these days.
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<onnadi3> Uh...do y'all know how to search for only bugs posted to PlanetEclipse?
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<lemmy> I have a suggestion as a first milestone due next week: Implement a simple fs finder connected to org.eclipse.discovery via a service. An exemplary consumer utilizes this finder to discover JDKs. :)
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<lemmy> Next week meaning 06/09.
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<lemmy> Including the CVS cleanups.
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<onnadi3> I can do that.
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<lemmy> Might make sense to implement the consumer in form of some JUnit tests.
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<onnadi3> I'm not sure about the consumer part...since that will require extension points and I don't know when exactly my book will arrive next week
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<lemmy> So we get around the Drools discussion this time. ;)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: Use a service or just simple method calls for the moment.
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<onnadi3> okey-doke
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<onnadi3> Could you please give me an example of what the tests would look like?
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<benny`work> hi guys
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<onnadi3> the junit tests
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<lemmy> After all org.eclipse.discovery is supposed to provide EP _and_ services.
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<onnadi3> benny`work: hallo
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<benny`work> hi onnadi3
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<lemmy> JUnit might be tricky since you don't know the fs content where the tests get executed.
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<lemmy> Hi Benny
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<benny`work> hi markus
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<lemmy> You don't really know how many JDKs to expect.
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<lemmy> Might be possible to mock the content of the fs somehow.
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<onnadi3> I think I can do it as org.eclipse.discovery.examples instead
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<lemmy> renaming/moving is never a problem. We have great tooling at our disposal. ;)
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<lemmy> for the meeting minutes I suggest to rotate the burden. who wants to take care of this meeting? :o
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: I refiled the bug. Its #190652
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<onnadi3> lemmy: I can do it all. Old meeting logs are here http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Auto-conf_meeting_logs
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<onnadi3> So should we move on to the DSL vs. Drools or figure out TagSea first?
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<lemmy> dunno, maybe we can keep drools for next week.
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<lemmy> Btw. by meeting notes I'm talking about a summary instead of just a chat log.
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<onnadi3> oh. ah.
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>_rcjsuen< don't you wanna use the proxy I've offered you?
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<_rcjsuen> Well, that was painful.
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<onnadi3> Three rcjsuens!!!
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>_rcjsuen< don't you wanna use the proxy I've offered you?
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<onnadi3> Alright. We could rotate the responsibility but I don't mind doing the chat logs and the summaries
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<lemmy> Perfect :)
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<onnadi3> I'm getting paid big bucks to do it, anyway B-)
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<lemmy> TagSE is just an idea how to make the code easy to understand for Remy and me. Check out the website and decide for yourself if it makes sense after all. I haven't used it yet.
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<_rcjsuen> I've looked at TagSEA.
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<_rcjsuen> Never used it, but have seen a 5-10 minute demo.
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<onnadi3> It seems to me like we should start with Javadoc and move to TagSea if we find deficiencies. I'm not sure what TagSea will really accomplish for us
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Could you please save your chat log? I think you're the only one with the complete thing now
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<lemmy> Sure, I'll send it to you
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<onnadi3> danke
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<lemmy> bitte
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>_rcjsuen< Are you going to use the bouncer? Otherwise I would reuse your account.
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<onnadi3_> rcjsuen, lemmy: Sorry guys
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<onnadi3_> Have you guys made a decision on TagSea?
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<lemmy> the decision is yours to make. :)
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<onnadi3_> cool. I vote that we use Javadoc and if you guys find my commenting illegible, then perhaps we can move on to TagSea...
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<lemmy> fine
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<onnadi3_> Next up, "- QA/Testing (Unit/FIT)"
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<onnadi3_> What does FIT mean?
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<lemmy> functional tests
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<onnadi3_> howzat different from unit tests?
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<lemmy> It is. You might wanna read up on that one. :)
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<lemmy> Lets reschedule this one for next week too. My head is empty atm.
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<onnadi3_> Alright
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<lemmy> I'll go for some R&R soon. Maybe have a nice cocktail too. ;)
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<onnadi3_> lemmy: Could you just explain what "    - IRC presence (bouncer/proxy)" this is so we know whether to shelve it too?
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<lemmy> It's this IRC proxy thingy we've already talked about.
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<onnadi3_> (Ah...that's why you want to move everything to next week ;) )
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<lemmy> One reason, also because my battery is nearly depleted.
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<onnadi3_> okey-dokey. Could you please send th eupdated logs
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===August 14 ===
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The first review of my submitted code. This was also where the name org.eclipse.discovery was decided.
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* E-mail Alex Blewitt to see if SoCers can post articles to EclipseZone about their projects
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* Write an article on Discovery and post it as many places as possible
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* Write documentation for Discovery in docbook format
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* Check out how Mac Eclipse does their JRE discovery
  
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onnadi3> lemmy: you want me to walk you through my code?
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<lemmy> ok, lets get started: How to get Discovery into the Eclipse Platform
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<lemmy> a second
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<lemmy> what do you mean by that?
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<onnadi3> alrighty
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<onnadi3> Well, I would like my work to be used by other projects
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<lemmy> I see that you use Java5...
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<lemmy> do you mean how to make discovery part of the eclipse sdk?
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<rcjsuen> AhtiK: no no no, don't worry about what's in eclipse-incub
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<onnadi3> Yeah :-)
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<onnadi3> yeah. Doesn't everyone? :-)
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<onnadi3> Is there a process for it?
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<lemmy> that is something we cannot enforce. we rather have to hope for adoption. surely we can promote discovery with blog posts and examples. but at the end of the day, the platform team will decide.
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: Do you want to talk about EEs?
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<onnadi3> okay
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<lemmy> And foundation
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<onnadi3> That kinna leads into the second item
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<lemmy> exactly. ;)
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<rcjsuen> yes, I do
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<onnadi3> zx suggested making a screencast
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<rcjsuen> I care about EEs because I do a lil' eRCP hack-age
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<rcjsuen_> yeah, item 1 really goes down to PR and usability
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: So do you know what Execution Environments are?
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<lemmy> i've never done a screencast. you're talking something like a flash movie?
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: And actually, most of Eclipse is still written with pre-1.5 APIs.
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<onnadi3> Yeah...
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Execution_Environments
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<onnadi3> Perhaps an article would suffice. Can anyone post on Eclipsezone?
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<onnadi3> uh...not really
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<lemmy> at best we would have both. personally I don't like screencasts, i rather like to read normal text.
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<AhtiK> what's the onnadi3 project?
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<onnadi3> Me too
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<AhtiK> there are eclipse projects that REQUIRE java5
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<lemmy> we can ask alex blewit
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<AhtiK> at eclipse.org
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<lemmy> +t
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<rcjsuen> AhtiK: yes, that's correct
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<lemmy> he is the "editor in chief".
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<rcjsuen> and i think apt has JavaSE-1.6 requirements
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<onnadi3> ah, that guy
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<onnadi3> AhtiK: its eclipse-autoconf in CVS
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<onnadi3> Does he lurk here?
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: Basically, it's a constraint at the plug-in level to mandate the APIs that can be used.
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<lemmy> what about http://www.eclipse.org/articles/ ?
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<rcjsuen> Although this isn't forced directly, although you can set incompatible EEs as warnings.
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<rcjsuen_> Nope, he doesn't.
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<rcjsuen> Equinox (or maybe OSGi in general?) will read a plug-in's Execution Environment and determine whether it can be started or not if it needs to be started.
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<onnadi3> Hello Remy :-)
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<rcjsuen> So if I only have J2SE-1.4 installed, it reads a J2SE-1.5 EE in some MANIFEST.MF
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<lemmy> we should write him an email. maybe in the name of all soc projects.
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<rcjsuen> That plug-in will NOT be started.
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<onnadi3> That'd be great
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<rcjsuen> This saves us from weird problems like NoClassDefFoudnError
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<onnadi3> I think  Eclipse corner will be easy enough
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<onnadi3> Ah. So I should write my code in Java1.4 style, right?
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<onnadi3> Oops. "hat is, articles that contain time-sensitive material or are likely to expire in a relatively short period of time do not belong on Eclipse Corner"
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<rcjsuen> or that minor/major version issue
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<rcjsuen_> Depends what "short" means.
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<rcjsuen> Actually, we are considering making it even smaller
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<onnadi3> True, but isn't beta software the definition of time-sensitive material? :-)
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<rcjsuen> So that it can be used in the embedded space
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<onnadi3> Doh. We don't need to belabor this point. We can always post on Planet Eclipse. That's got mad readership
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<rcjsuen> So this would be a CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0 profile.
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<rcjsuen_> yeah
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<AhtiK> rcjsuen: ahh ok, Now I see what you meant by bad example. true, we discovered already last year that every project should have just ONE directory instead of these three I made :) these should have been under wordwrap dir..
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<rcjsuen_> you could just paste some simple code
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<rcjsuen> A lot of Eclipse plug-ins are actually at that level.
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<rcjsuen_> then include a zip
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<rcjsuen> AhtiK: ;)
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<rcjsuen_> with the full thing
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<AhtiK> we didn't care to clean up because moved to soc.e.o, if I remember correctly :)
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<rcjsuen_> or whatever
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: Huh. Is there a way to get eclipse to flag code that I write that is not in a particular EE?
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<onnadi3> So I guess, the bottom line is 1) E-mail Blewitt, and 2) post to Planet Eclipse
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<rcjsuen> yeah, I think so
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<lemmy> onnadi3: are you going to write an email to alex? otherwise i can do it too.
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<rcjsuen> I am not aware of this feature.
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Well, if its going to be in the name of all of SoC then you should prob'ly do it. Otherwise I will
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<onnadi3> I'm not sure I can tell what differentaites Java 1.3 from 1.4
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<lemmy> onnadi3: i don't think i'm a better suited represent for soc... but ok, i'll write the email.
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<rcjsuen> you get warnings if the jre isn't the right match
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<onnadi3> Oh, you don't know him personally?
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<rcjsuen> That's why you install a smaller JRE on your computer and use that for your project
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<onnadi3> Sorry, I thought you did
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<rcjsuen> is how that would work
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<onnadi3> I can write it, in that case
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<rcjsuen> to prevent you from using 1.5 APIs or 1.4 APIs or whatever
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<lemmy> yeah, simply cc soc-dev
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<onnadi3> aaaaah
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<onnadi3> No problem
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: so we do want to set a low constraint of f-1.0?
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<rcjsuen_> Don't think anyone in here really knows him that well.
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<lemmy> Do you see a reason to use a higher level? I don't
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<lemmy> for agenda item #3 i suggest http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Authoring-With-Eclipse/index.html
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<onnadi3> :-O 1.0!!
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<lemmy> although for a basic how to hack the wiki might be fine too.
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<onnadi3> That's old school. This will be fun
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<onnadi3> Hmm, if DocBook can publish to HTML, then I'll go with it
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<lemmy> We can always move upwards
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<lemmy> html, pdf, ...
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0 is a subset of J2SE-1.3.
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<onnadi3> good
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: that's correct
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<lemmy> docbook doesn't contain the layout, just the structure.
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<rcjsuen> ~wiki J9
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<rcjsuen_> DITA also does html / pdf, it can also transform to eclipsehelp, though I'm not familiar with the eclipsehelp bit
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<KOS-MOS> Check out this wiki article - http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/J9
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<lemmy> for docbook i've done the transformation to html and pdf lately.
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<rcjsuen> With F-1.0, you lose things like
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<onnadi3> Alrighty. I'll start off with DocBook and switch to DITA if I hit snags
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<rcjsuen> URI
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<rcjsuen> and String's split method
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<lemmy> he is hard to miss, isn't he? ;o
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<rcjsuen> and Exception chaining
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<lemmy> the British accent is very strong
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<rcjsuen> but you'll probably extend CoreException
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<lemmy> btw. onnadi3 have you had a look at the mac jre discovery code in 3.4m1?
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<rcjsuen> so don't worry about that latter bit
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<rcjsuen_> I didn't even realize there was a 'Search' button.
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<onnadi3> Could you please explain Exception chaining?
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<rcjsuen_> Maybe it just looks for specific path names
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<rcjsuen> you know like
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<rcjsuen_> like jre/bin/
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<rcjsuen> throw new IOException(e);
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<lemmy> rcjsuen_: the search button on the jre page is older. but it isn't a smart search, just recursive.
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<rcjsuen> rather
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<rcjsuen_> ic
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<rcjsuen> you catch an IOException
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<onnadi3> From the description, it does exactly what our Discovery does
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<rcjsuen> then throw a more specific one to yours
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<onnadi3> Searches a location for JREs
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<rcjsuen> throw new MyNewException(e);
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<lemmy> but only on mac osx
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<rcjsuen> the concept of passing an Exception (or Throwable I guess?) to another one so that it keeps chaining/propgating is introduced in 1.4
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<rcjsuen> but anyway, with CoreException don't worry about it, same thing
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<onnadi3> true :-)
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<rcjsuen> we did the same thing with ECF
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<lemmy> but it is definitely worth to check how they do it.
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<rcjsuen> had ECFException extend CoreException instead of Exception
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<onnadi3> okay
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<lemmy> onnadi3: a reason to use foundation 1.0 is because provisioning seems to be interested in using autoconf.
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<rcjsuen_> I wonder how it works
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: lol, good call
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<rcjsuen_> maybe like if (Platform.getOS().equals(Platform.MAC)) or whatever the actual method/field names are
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<rcjsuen> i totally jus tforgot about that and just explained EEs ;p
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<rcjsuen> sorry ;(
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<onnadi3> Well, that's it for the agenda. I'm still mailing the CDT-dev folks to try and get the Make insertion working
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<onnadi3> who's provisioning?
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<onnadi3> I tried the instructions they gave, but nothing happened
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<rcjsuen> Provisioning is an incubator project for Equinox.
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<rcjsuen_> onnadi3: that's nice
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<lemmy> Remy: that's what makes a good team. ;)
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<rcjsuen> http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/incubator/provisioning/proposal.php
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<lemmy> onnadi3: being utilized by provisioning is something to feel proud about.
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<Ali> could you please send me a link to the sourceforge project for that? I didnt see it on teh wiki (I may have missed it though)
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<lemmy> ;)
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<onnadi3> lemmy, rcjsuen_: When do I have to turn in all the code/docs/etc. in so you guys can evaluate?
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<onnadi3> Alright! Just one week on the job and the higher-ups are already taking notice :-)
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<rcjsuen_> Ali: eclipse-incub is the name
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<rcjsuen> ^about J9, you will download J9 as your JRE
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<rcjsuen_> so sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-incub
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: OK. Is that what you use to do Eclipse dev?
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<lemmy> as early as possible. continuous evaluation. ;)
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<rcjsuen> yes, i have that installed on my machine for working with ecf and ercp
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<rcjsuen_> onnadi3: dunno, let's see
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<AhtiK> come on guys :P don't you want to use normal programming constructs like generics and enums?:)
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<rcjsuen_> probably next Friday
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<lemmy> onnadi3: two more things besides the EE. We should create a CVS structure much like ecf-bittorrent and your projects/plugins should start with org.eclipse.
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<rcjsuen_> http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60325&topic=10729
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<lemmy> This also applies for plugin names
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<onnadi3> Alright, as soon as possible but before Friday, it is :-)
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<onnadi3> I'm checking out ecf.bittorrent right now
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<onnadi3> So our final meeting will be on Monday, the 20th, then?
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<lemmy> package structure inside the plug-in should follow the name of the plug-in or the other way around. bottom line, they should be aligned.
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<lemmy> do we want to have an additional meeting in between?
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<onnadi3> Very nice. So is it okay to use org.eclipse.autoconf or should we get a better name?
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<Ali> thanks a lot. Is there any information on what is left to be implemented, what features have ben implemented and such?
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<onnadi3> lemmy: If we do, I'd rather it be between friday and sunday inclusive. That way I'd have stuff for y'all to comment on
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<lemmy> One last thing... classes which are not supposed to be used by other plug-ins are to be "locked away" in the *.internal.* name space
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<Ali> I saw a comment at the bottom of the wiki regarding RSE
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<lemmy> onnadi3: do we have a better name yet
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<Ali> I am glad to see things are moving forward there :-)
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<onnadi3> lemmy: ach. How do I place things in the "internal" namespace?
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<lemmy> onnadi3: so we leave the precise date open but target the weekend?
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<lemmy> org.eclipse.discovery?
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<onnadi3> Sure thing
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<lemmy> onnadi3: it's as regular package. :)
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<onnadi3> Are there any other items to discuss today?
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<onnadi3> So, all private classes should be placed in the org.eclipse.internal package?
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<lemmy> not from my side
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<lemmy> Actually it isn't official JAVA standard although people have started to talk about the inclusion. Something like an access modifier for projects.
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<lemmy> ok, ttytomorrow
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<lemmy> org.eclipse.autoconf.internal
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<rcjsuen_> bye
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<onnadi3> lemmy: (I like org.eclipse.discovery. What do you think rcjsuen?)
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<onnadi3> alrighty. Bye :-)
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<lemmy> plug-in.name.space.internal.*
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<rcjsuen> discovery works
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<rcjsuen> where's that doc on the wiki
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Naming_Conventions
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<lemmy> as long as we ain't be sued by discovery channel. ;o
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<onnadi3> I'm so going to make a discoverer for a "Channel" plugin so I can have org.eclipse.discovery.channel
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<lemmy> In Germany the former federal telecommunication company tried to get a trademark on the "T".
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<onnadi3> Holy moley! All this documentation. I'm gonna be reading the Eclipse wiki all weekend :-)
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<lemmy> Last but not least... IMO we should target Eclipse 3.3 instead of 3.2
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<onnadi3> lemmy: were they allowed to copyright, "T"?
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<lemmy> onnadi3: AFAIK it was denied. :)
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<onnadi3> Huh? Shouldn't it be Eclipse 3.1 or lower?
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<ijuma> or lower?
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<ijuma> that would be quite nasty ;)
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<lemmy> < 3.1 makes nearly no sense. It isn't based on OSGi
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<onnadi3> Oh. I thought it was a general principle to allow as many Eclipses to use a plugin as possible
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<lemmy> Let me elaborate on this one. for org.eclipse.discovery.jdt we should target 3.3 whereas for org.eclipse.discovery itself, we should try to keep our dependencies as minimal as possible. If possible just org.osgi.
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: 3.0 is OSGi no?
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<rcjsuen> but technically if provisioning wants this, 3.3 is no biggie
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: IIRC 3.1 has been the first OSGi based version, though they started porting with 3.0
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<rcjsuen> o
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<rcjsuen> I tried writing 3.0 plug-ins using 3.2
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<rcjsuen> wow, that was painful
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<lemmy> software history :)
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<rcjsuen> I think I ended up coding in 3.0 instead
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<lemmy> which is also painful.
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<onnadi3> How exactly would I target Eclipse 3.3? Simply setting the minimum version to 3.3 in org.eclipse.discovery.jdt?
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<rcjsuen> You'd just use 3.3 as your target platform in the pde prefs
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<onnadi3> OK
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<onnadi3> I think I got it. Code in Java1.0. Set org.eclipse.dioscovery's min version to 3.1, and set org.eclipse.discovery.jdt's min version to 3.3
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<rcjsuen> Well, you're not actually using Java 1.0.
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<rcjsuen> Believe me it's not as painful as it sounds. CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0 is pretty big imo.
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<onnadi3> uh. Sorry if I missed it earlier but what is "CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0"? Is it provisioning?
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<lemmy> onnadi3: for org.eclipse.discovery.drools (name will probably differ), we will probably need a different EE anyway.
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: that's the name of the execution environment
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<rcjsuen> This is what 1.1 looks like http://java.sun.com/javame/reference/apis/jsr218/
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<rcjsuen> I could never find 1.0, it's stupid.
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<onnadi3> Ah. Aaaah. Bytecode. It all makes sense
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<onnadi3> CDC is just a set of classes that I should use instead of those in J2SE v.5
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<onnadi3> Alright. I'm glad we cleared this all up.
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<lemmy> Nothing left for Saturday. ;)
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<lemmy> Hi Benny
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: ;)
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<benny`work> hi lemmy
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<onnadi3> lemmy, rcjsuen: have you looked at the plugin.xml files? Is there anything I'm obviously missing?
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<rcjsuen> i haven't had a chance, this project at work is taking up most/all of my time
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: In the Overview tab you can specify your execution environment tho
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<rcjsuen> by can i mean you _ should_ ;)
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<rcjsuen> whenever i see ppl that don't use EEs, I file them a bug right away
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<onnadi3> Rcjsuen: Oh yeah. Sorry. I forgot you're at work
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<rcjsuen> well, Markus goes to work too ;)
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<onnadi3> But he's at home now...aren't you Markus?
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<lemmy> Remy hopes to get the EE-police award next year at EclipseCon. %)
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<onnadi3> hahahaha
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<lemmy> Actually I'm already lying in bed.
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<rcjsuen> I rarely use my notebook on a bed
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<rcjsuen> always the table
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<lemmy> Don't worry, I'm not naked.
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<onnadi3> hahahahhahaaha
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<onnadi3> Well, I think making all the changes you guys recommended will take up a lot of time already. Plus, I gotta read all the standards docs
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<lemmy> hmm, org.osgi for org.eclipse.discovery would rule out extension points
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<ijuma> ok, so there are 2 things rcjsuen feels strongly about, EE and bandwidth
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<rcjsuen> ijuma: quite so
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<onnadi3> lemmy: how so?
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<lemmy> onnadi3: better do it early. with each new line of code it gets more painful.
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<onnadi3> lemmy: I meant, what did your statement mean? Am I going to be importing any org.osgi stuff?
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<onnadi3> Right now my plugin just depends on Eclipse
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<lemmy> onnadi3: org.eclipse.core.runtime
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<lemmy> You're importing org.osgi indirectly already.
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<rcjsuen> does it depend on runtime?
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<rcjsuen> i mean using extensions
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<lemmy> AFAIK it does.
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<onnadi3> Uh...yeah. It uses extension points
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<lemmy> Platform.getExtensionRegistry()
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<rcjsuen> don't have to do that
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<rcjsuen> i mean
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<rcjsuen> don't have to depend on runtime
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<lemmy> though services are kind of unusual for high level plug-ins like JDT.
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<lemmy> I guess it all depends on how much we are willing to go into the direction of provisioning.
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<onnadi3> Whew. I'm a little confused here. lemmy: does the "Developing Eclipse plug-ins" book talk about the difference between the two? I have a copy arriving from Amazon
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<lemmy> Going down that road doesn't mean we will loose JDT or CDT. It only makes it slightly harder.
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<lemmy> onnadi3: I don't know the TOC out of my head. Maybe it doesn't but there is enough of good org.osgi.services doc out there.
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<lemmy> http://www.eclipsezone.com/articles/extensions-vs-services/
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<lemmy> The amount of reading material must be frightening. :o
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<onnadi3> Oh! Oh!! I get it. Eclipse uses OSGi
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<onnadi3> It all makes sense!!
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<onnadi3> But wait! Why should we use org.osgi?
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<onnadi3> Is it just for org.eclipse.discovery.jdt?
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<lemmy> org.eclipse.discovery should have minimal dependencies, which means ideally it would depend only on org.osgi.
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<onnadi3> Gotcha
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<lemmy> org.eclipse.discovery.jdt acts as the connector between the "high level" JDT (org.eclipse...) and the low level org.osgi.
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<onnadi3> Hmm, so on a previous point, that means that I can use enums and iterators in my code as long as all the classes involved can be found in CD1.0, right?
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<onnadi3> Well, I don't use them personally, but what I meant to ask is, the syntactical sugar is just that, right? I could use it or not even with J9, right?
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<lemmy> http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tasks/pde_compilation_env.htm
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===28 May 2007===
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Markus explained how to use OS-specific fragments.
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<LeNettoyeur> well it seems that you went of a path where plugins like JDT, CDT, etc would have to be modified
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Aug 06 11:35:44 <onnadi3> I still haven't figured out how to incorporate code from OS-specific fragments
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<lemmy> true
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Aug 06 11:35:54 <onnadi3> I haven't worked on that bug since I posted it
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<lemmy> Actually I would prefer not to change existing code but I don't see a way to avoid it.
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Aug 06 11:36:04 <onnadi3> ~196660
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<LeNettoyeur> I believe that the auto conf plug-in should provide a headless discovery facilities
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Aug 06 11:36:42 <lemmy> bugzilla is probably still down
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<lemmy> I totally agree with headless
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Aug 06 11:37:13 <onnadi3> I can access it just fine. (why didn't KOS-MOS autocomplete?)
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<LeNettoyeur> this plug-in would then have extension, contributed by jdt and the others
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Aug 06 11:37:59 <lemmy> bugzilla was down earlier today. maybe KOS-MOS needs a restart?!
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<LeNettoyeur> and these jdt.autoconf would know which value to set into jdt prefs (or whatever other mechanism)
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Aug 06 11:38:15 <onnadi3> strange
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<LeNettoyeur> so you end up with 3 plugins.
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Aug 06 11:39:14 <KOS-MOS> See bug 196660 - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=196660
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<LeNettoyeur> org.eclipse.autoconf provides basic infrastructure for discovery and has an extension point
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Aug 06 11:39:20 <onnadi3> yay!
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<LeNettoyeur> org.eclipse.jdt... stays unchanged
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Aug 06 11:40:21 <onnadi3> So, have you ever written OS-specific fragments before?
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<LeNettoyeur> org.eclipse.jdt.autoconf (depends on org.eclipse.autoconf) registers an extension to the autoconf extension point to describe the rules. The execution of an autoconf query returns values that are then being injected into the proper prefs
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<LeNettoyeur> This last plugin may have an optional dependency on UI to contribute a pref page.
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<lemmy> If the consumer obtains information via some other API call, we would miss it.
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Aug 06 11:43:37 <lemmy> onnadi3, swt itself uses fragments.
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<LeNettoyeur> if they are stored in a pref, the jdt.autonf should store it there, if it is from a config file somewhere else, it should be in it
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Aug 06 11:43:46 <lemmy> which are pretty much platform dependent.
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<lemmy> in the long run however, I see the ownership of jdt.autoconf at the jdt.
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Aug 06 11:44:28 <onnadi3> I just can't figure out how to make certain code/classes appear on one OS and not in another
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<LeNettoyeur> I Agree and this is why I think you can rely on prefs and other internal formats
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Aug 06 11:44:42 <onnadi3> Perhaps its not too important. We could alway just bundle em all together
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of JDT
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<lemmy> the only problem i see is, if jdt.autoconf doesn't get accepted by JDT. but it's still better than having a bunch of patches.
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Aug 06 11:46:40 <onnadi3> okay
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<LeNettoyeur> Another scary thing "rediscover the JREs whenever a project is being created"... This is scary because if you browse the file system everytime.
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Aug 06 11:46:43 <lemmy> the interfaces of each fragment has to be the same, but the impl might differ. actually i would move the interfaces into the host plug-in and let the fragments implement the interfaces.
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<lemmy> rediscovery is indeed something that should only be done on demand. we are aware of the problem that it might require a lot of resources.  
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Aug 06 11:47:32 <lemmy> making certain classes appear only on a certain os kinda destroys the fragment purpose anyway.
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<LeNettoyeur> If you look at mylar that's how it works. Reach into the guts of controls... it does not use APIs.
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Aug 06 11:47:39 <onnadi3> So, we'd publish a JREFinder-win or JREFinder-osx?
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<lemmy> another thing we're currently thinking about is if we go and try to validate our findings. it definitely raises security concerns.
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Aug 06 11:47:47 <lemmy> nope
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<lemmy> Suppose someone want's us to discover javac. We might find a binary called javac. But do you really want to execute it with something like "javac -version".
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Aug 06 11:48:18 <lemmy> we publish a jrefinder and a jrefinder-win-fragment and a jrefinder-osx-fragment.
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<LeNettoyeur> This decision should be left to the user
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Aug 06 11:48:42 <lemmy> a customer deployes all three inside osgi and osgi takes care of loading the right fragment.
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<LeNettoyeur> and the rules should be splitted such that there is a purely static discovery where no discovered code is ran
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<LeNettoyeur> and another part which is more "validation" of the discovered pieces
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<lemmy> either that or some kind of verification that doesn't come with a security problem. something like a checksum for a given bin might work, but probably adds to much of maintenance.
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<lemmy> yep, validation is something optional.
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Aug 06 11:50:57 <lemmy> swt demonstrates it perfectly. Just extract org.eclipse.swt_3.3.0.vNNNN.jar and org.eclipse.swt.os.ws.arch.NNNN.jar
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<LeNettoyeur> I see checksum as just another way to discover
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Aug 06 11:51:26 <lemmy> onnadi3, os filters are explained in the osgi r4 spec. either the compendium or the core.
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<lemmy> good point
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Aug 06 11:51:37 <onnadi3> oh
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<LeNettoyeur> and if it is the way that one has decided to identify its thing then that's it
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Aug 06 11:52:16 <onnadi3> I have the core here. Let me check it again
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<lemmy> which is definitely a good example why discovery shouldn't happen each time a project gets created.
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Aug 06 11:52:17 <lemmy> in our case it is even easier than it is for swt. we don't need to care about arch and ws. we only need to care about os.
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<lemmy> nobody know how expensive those rules can get.
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Aug 06 11:52:38 <lemmy> (& (osgi.os=linux) (osgi.arch=x86))
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<lemmy> very valuable input, thx. :)
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Aug 06 11:53:04 <lemmy> it's a ldap style "query".
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Aug 06 11:56:00 <onnadi3> Hmm, I found a small section in core about fragments. I think once I look through that and then through the jars (I didn't think of looking there), I'll be able to get this figured out
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Aug 06 11:56:44 <lemmy> in our case the platform filter will probably look just like "(osgi.os=linux)" and "(osgi.os=win32)"...
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Aug 06 11:58:03 <onnadi3> cool
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Aug 06 11:59:58 <onnadi3> Ah, I'm beginning to understand it now. The section on filters is hidden in the "Service Layer" section. That's how come I'd never seen it before
 
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<onnadi3> Two things:
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<lemmy> So what is on our agenda?
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<lemmy> unfortunately I had no time to send out an agenda.
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<rcjsuen_> k we're good
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<onnadi3> 1. Weekly meeting times
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<rcjsuen_> i 'm outside the lab right now >_>
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<onnadi3> 2. Agenda for this coming month, or at least the next few weeks
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<onnadi3> All that was left was to decide what we're to do about CDT i.e. to go ahead and discover whether Make exists on a system or not
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<onnadi3> 3. Perhaps all get on the same page about hte project's objective
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<lemmy> the other stuff is already done?
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<onnadi3> (that's not 3, I know :-) )
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<onnadi3> Well...I've implemented it and it compiles
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<rcjsuen> I'm not sure when Philippe will send out an email for weekly meetings.
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<rcjsuen_> lol
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<rcjsuen> Since the program starts on Monday is it?
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<onnadi3> But I'm getting synchronization errors
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<onnadi3> yup
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<onnadi3> (I dread Concurrency)
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<lemmy> About 1. I'll be back in Germany 11th of June which should
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<rcjsuen_> synchronization?
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allow us for more flexible meeting times.
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<rcjsuen_> ah
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<rcjsuen> I can't do weekday meetings since I have a full-time (internship) job.
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<onnadi3> I'm working on it. I hope it won't be a big deal
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<lemmy> I'm rather busy through the week myself and would prefer
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<onnadi3> So, Markus, do you still think we should go ahead with just finding make on a system?
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meetings on the weekend too.
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<lemmy> yes, as it will help us to understand what we can generalize and refactor.
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<onnadi3> Alright. Should we perhaps stick with this time until we
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<onnadi3> That's true
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find a better time?
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<rcjsuen_> yes
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<rcjsuen> Saturday mornings are no problem with me.
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<lemmy> for example the rule set/heuristics should come from a xml file. I don't want to touch code/recompile if I add a new location.
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<lemmy> Sounds like a plan to me.
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<onnadi3> Hmm, but the IFinder.refresh() can't be specified declaratively
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<onnadi3> Alrighty! Next up,  2. Agenda for this coming month,
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<lemmy> Why not?
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<lemmy> We definitely need to setup SCM.
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<onnadi3> Well, for instance in JREFinder, refresh() needs to call Platform and then run a loop in order to pick out the the right VMType to do the testing with
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<lemmy> onnadi3: Have you started the Eclipse IP process already?
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<onnadi3> If you're going to have loops, then its no longer really declarative, is it?
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<onnadi3> I thought, the eclipse-dev folks were going to send out an
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<lemmy> I don't get why this renders a xml file impossible.
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e-mail to all of us en masse
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<onnadi3> Well, it doesn't make it impossible but it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble of avoiding recompilation if we'll end up writing loops and conditionals in XML
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<lemmy> Lets check the soc bug again...
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<lemmy> conditional xml? why?
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<rcjsuen> wizEpit: Hi wizEpit, don't think I've seen you around, are
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<onnadi3> If you can, please look at JREFinder.isJREDirectory(). It makes use of loops and an if-statement
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<rcjsuen> yeah, It's been a while, I don't really remember the details
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<lemmy> btw. i'm still missing the jrefinder.ui plug-in
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<rcjsuen> Can always just use SF for now.
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<onnadi3> Oh? I committed that
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<rcjsuen> we all did so last yr anyway ;p
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<lemmy> I'm talking about JREFinder.find() and the potentialJRELocations getting filled.
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<lemmy> We should get the process started anyway. Don't you agree that
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<lemmy> This could be done with a simple/non conditional xml.
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the code might end up in Eclipse?
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<onnadi3> Yes yes yes
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<lemmy> there is no jrefinder.ui plug-in. :o
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<rcjsuen> I'm not sure which project would consume it though.
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<onnadi3> Yeah. But what I'm saying is that IFinder also needs a refresh() method which uses relatively complex constructs that would not be suitable for XML. So we have to decide if we really want discovery plugin writers to have to separate their IFinder code into a Java part and an XML part
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<lemmy> It will be easier if the code is already at eclipse.org i guess.
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<lemmy> Yes, because the xml changes independently of the refresh and more frequently.
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<lemmy> Do you have a SF id ogechi?
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<onnadi3> Hmm...
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: Right
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<onnadi3> That's true, too :-)
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<rcjsuen> I think I added him already
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<onnadi3> (BTW, I named the ui plugin wrongly and that's why it isn't showing up...yet)
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<onnadi3> No. But I have a google id and I have used Google's project
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hosting before
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<onnadi3> lemmy: should we enforce the XML rule or  just let plugin writers use XML if they see fit?
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<onnadi3> Its really easy
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<lemmy> I don't see a reason to enforce it.
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<rcjsuen> okay i guess not the n;p
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<onnadi3> oh OK. So you meant use XML for JREFinder, then?
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<lemmy> I would prefer to use SF. Eclipse GSoC has a project set up already.
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<lemmy> And GSoC doesn't require us to use their facilities.
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<lemmy> onnadi3, yep
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<lemmy> http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-incub
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<lemmy> btw. newer swallow Exceptions.
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<onnadi3> lemmy: so all the past GSoC projects are held in SF under
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<lemmy> try { ... } catch(Exception e) { // do nothing } is really bad.
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one source tree?
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<lemmy> JREFinder.readLInes()
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<rcjsuen> not "all"
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<onnadi3> But the silly BufferedReader throws exceptions when it hits EOF. I couldn't think of another way to test for EOF
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<rcjsuen> some...didn't ;p
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<onnadi3> And the API doesn't have an isEndOfFile() method
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<rcjsuen> http://eclipse-incub.cvs.sourceforge.net/eclipse-incub/
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<lemmy> What kind of exception does it throw in that case?
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<rcjsuen> by some i mean lots
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<onnadi3> **ahem** an IOException. I'll put that in right away :-)
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<rcjsuen> I don't know how strict pombreda is going to be this year though ;)
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<rcjsuen> it shouldn't
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<rcjsuen> It's just easier for the populace to find GSOC code.
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<rcjsuen> you're calling reader.readLine()?
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<rcjsuen> If they're all in one place, naturally.
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<onnadi3> Yeah
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<onnadi3> OK. THat makes sense.
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<rcjsuen> If it's done
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<onnadi3> So once I get an SF id, I can e-mail rcjsuen to get added to
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<rcjsuen> it should return null
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the incub project?
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<lemmy> onnadi3, the problem with catching Exception is, that it catches all RuntimeException. And somebody might be interested in certain RuntimeExceptions
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<lemmy> you can email either remy or me.
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<onnadi3> Ah. Null. I didn't see that...
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<lemmy> or both of us and see who acts fiirst. ;)
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<onnadi3> Good call, Markus. Will change it
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<rcjsuen> We all have admin rights actually.
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<rcjsuen> You can just speak up here.
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<onnadi3> Alright. Bottom line: we should get JREFinder to use a an external representation (e.g. XML) for storing the potential JRE locations
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<rcjsuen> Someone with free time will do it.
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<onnadi3> lemmy, rcjsuen: I don't think there's anything else left to discuss; Do y'all?
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<lemmy> What about CVS vs SVN?
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<rcjsuen> I don't think so off hand.
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<onnadi3> SVN, unless someones has a strong opposition to it...
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<onnadi3> okey-dokey. I'll do some more bug hunting and update bugzilla once this undiscovery thing is done, then
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<rcjsuen> You're supposed to use CVS.
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<rcjsuen> lol
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<onnadi3> oops
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<lemmy> Says pombreda ?
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<rcjsuen> Says pombreda alright.
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<lemmy> Eclipse.org offers SVN, so does SF.
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<onnadi3> I thought so , too
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<rcjsuen> We picked CVS because of the lower barrier of entry.
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<rcjsuen> That was my vote +1 for CVS.
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<rcjsuen> Even though I would gladly -infinity to CVS.
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<lemmy> Barrier for who?
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<rcjsuen> Since I can't stand 1.x version numbers.
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: Fora nyone
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<lemmy> I'm fine with both and with pombreda  opting for CVS lets use CVS then.
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<onnadi3> <sigh> CVS it is, I guess  :-)
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<rcjsuen> Sorry
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: No need to be sorry. CVS is fine for us.
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<onnadi3> Except for creating directories *ahem*
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<lemmy> Who cares if a file history is broken. ;)
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<onnadi3> Well, now that that is settled, should we move into my goals
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for the next meeting?
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<lemmy> sure
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<rcjsuen> sounds good
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<onnadi3> I was thinking I'd draw out different scenarios in which the
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<onnadi3> e.g.
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<onnadi3> 1. Let's say you dl the autoconf plugin then download the
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C++ plugin, the autoconf plugin will automatically determine what the
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C++ plugin needs and try to find them
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<lemmy> onnadi3: the autoconf plugin refers to your plugin?
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<onnadi3> Yeah
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<lemmy> do you want the autoconf plugin to know about cdt?
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<rcjsuen> That'd require some identical plug-in ID + version magic
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<onnadi3> Well, I think it would be beneficial, from the user
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standpoint, to have the autoconf plugin keep as large a db as feasible
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of plugins and their requirements
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<lemmy> actually I don't think autoconf should know about it consumers.
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<onnadi3> that way, it looks like magic to the user
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<onnadi3> Of course, we would also want to provide an API for the
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autconf plugin so that newer plugins can make their requirements
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<lemmy> IMO autoconf should only provide the framework to discover
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<rcjsuen> It'd be tough to maintain since I'm assuming those plug-ins
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<lemmy> remy: that's why i don't like the idea of shipping discovery
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<lemmy> btw. autoconf is a working title? ;)
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<rcjsuen> I guess
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<onnadi3> Sounds fine to me :)
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<onnadi3> Hmm, of course our main aim won't be collating all the
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to allow the capability so that the more common older plugins are
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<lemmy> sure, provide a few exemplary rules like jdk, gcc, ... but
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nothing specific.
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<lemmy> It's a nice vision to allow for older plug-ins to benefit from
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<onnadi3> So, should we go through the other scenarios now or is that
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something I should flesh out more during the week?
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<lemmy> tbh lets try to get a strong and fairly generic framework
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<rcjsuen> Agreed.
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<onnadi3> Agreed
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<lemmy> A database is something that could live from contributions.
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<rcjsuen> Very true, services / extensions.
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<onnadi3> So another scenario would be when the C++ plugin has already
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<onnadi3> In that case, the user would have to click a button or
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<onnadi3> I could do sketches of what this would look like during the week
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<rcjsuen> yes, that seems reasonable
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<rcjsuen> like if they installed a new JRE and it's the new JAVA_HOME
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<rcjsuen> could possibly update that or whatever
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<lemmy> It seems if I have a slightly different vision for autoconf. I
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<onnadi3> ah
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<onnadi3> So perhaps we should focus on the service first, and then if
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there's any time left, work on prettifying?
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: You mean someone else will code the UI?
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: I don't see the need for a UI.
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<lemmy> CDT and JDT will use the autoconf facilities to discover their
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<lemmy> We could provide patches for CDT and JDT.
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<lemmy> Basically CDT and JDT use OSGi preference service to obtain a
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: since we can't be sure of the result of autoconf
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<rcjsuen> That's true.
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<rcjsuen> Sounds reasonable.
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<onnadi3> Shouldn't it be: JDT is installed. autoconf discovers JDK.
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<lemmy> Who provides the discovery rule. I think those should also
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<onnadi3> I'd originally thought this could be done by the community
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<lemmy> onnadi3: I wouldn't care so much for the installation of JDT
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<onnadi3> lemmy: But won't the same rule suffice for any other Java
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<lemmy> I don't get the question, sorry.
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<onnadi3> So if you discovered, say, the JDK while starting one Java
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<lemmy> but it's just another layer on top of jdks.
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<lemmy> onnadi3: Discovery could either be triggered from the new
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<rcjsuen> it should do a rediscover
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<lemmy> getInstalledJREs(boolean rediscover) ;)
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<onnadi3> yup
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<onnadi3> So for now, we stick with the original plan of filling a
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<lemmy> But why not, that's the usual way anyway.
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<onnadi3> yup. Unless the plugins allow their prefs to be publicly written
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<onnadi3> But I don't know if lossa plugins do that
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<onnadi3> or if its good form anyway
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<onnadi3> okay
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<onnadi3> true that
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<lemmy> Overwriting those "tables" would definitely mean accessing internal API.
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<onnadi3> So it will have to be by patching the plugins themselves
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<onnadi3> Which, hopefully, won't be immensely difficult :-)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: Its tedious work anyway. Just adding a couple of
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<onnadi3> Hmm, so maybe for our next meeting, I should make a skeleton
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<lemmy> I find it far more interesting designing the a generic discovery engine.
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<onnadi3> Or I coul dinstead work on defining rules in DRools to see
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<lemmy> It would start with drools to get a feeling how the external
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<onnadi3> lemmy: do you mean, designing the heuristics that will find
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<lemmy> Start with something simple. A list of possible locations for a JDK.
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<onnadi3> Ah OK. So it comes down to:
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<onnadi3> 1. Play with Drools and see how it works
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<zx> the EE concept was moved to JDT remmy, no longer in PDE
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<onnadi3> 2. Write heuristics for finding where the JDK lives ina system
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<rcjsuen> zx: one less thing for you to worry about?
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<lemmy> Familiarize yourself with PDE. Create the initial plug-in. Get
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<rcjsuen> zx: you need to use like 'update classpath' to stop those
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<onnadi3> lemmy: what do you mean by working environment?
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<rcjsuen> get Eclipse setup and all that good stuff
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<lemmy> zx: why not downwards in the direction of OSGi?
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<zx> lemmy, well, EE is in the spec
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: an interesting proposition
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<zx> JDT provides the tooling around EE
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<lemmy> onnadi3: configure your Eclipse for plug-in development...
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<onnadi3> okey-dokey
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<zx> need to start packing for my flight that leaves in 6 hours
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<onnadi3> lemmy, rcjsuen: Whew! I think we got quite a bit hashed out
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<lemmy> If there is a compilable plug-in in the cvs repository next
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Saturday that takes a collection of possible fs locations and returns
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a collection of jdks...
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<onnadi3> lemmy: gotcha :-)
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<lemmy> No need for fancy API or UI yet. JUnit tests do great.
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<rcjsuen> yay unit tests :)
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<lemmy> And it's ok if they fail :)
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<rcjsuen> So true.
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<onnadi3> hahaha I'll make a few fail just for you :-)
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<lemmy> which reminds me. I missed Wayne's test driven webcast.
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<lemmy> Fortunately it's recorded somewhere. :)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: are you fine with it if i send this chat log to the
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soc-dev mailing list, so others get to know what we're up to?
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<onnadi3> I'm all for it. Let 'em know we been working hard ;-)
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===15 May 2007===
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===July 28 2007===
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Gmail chat
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*Weekly meetings moved to 11:30am EDT/7:30pm CST
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<pre>
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*Designed the interface IFinder that all finders will share. See [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=198121 Bug 198121]
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10:41 AM markus: Hi
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me: Hello, Markus
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  Howdy?
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markus: How are you?
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me: I'm fine, thank you
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  You still in India, I see
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10:42 AM markus: Yep, I am, but only for another month.
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10:43 AM Beginning with June it will be easier to schedule meetings.
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me: Excellent
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10:44 AM markus: I'll log this session so Remy gets to know what we decided.
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me: Alrighty
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  So, the main things I wanted to know were
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10:45 AM 1) Shall we stick to the scope of the project as somewhat defined on the wiki? and
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  2) Where can I find good free Eclipse learning material?
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10:46 AM markus: Remy brought up the idea to prefer CDT use cases since those fall into the area where we get the most questions in newsgroups and irc.
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10:47 AM me: Ah. Good choice
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10:48 AM markus: But once you got discovery in the local file system working, discovery of jdk or php shouldn only be a matter of adding just another "rule".
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  -n
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me: Yup
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10:49 AM BTW, for CDT we'd need to discover things like the compiler, Make, maybe subversion or CVS etc.?
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markus: GCC, any other compiler...
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10:50 AM With GCC being the test case?
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me: test case? Do you mean starting point?
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markus: Basically it comes down to discovering a binary in the local fs and making sure it's the right one.
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me: Yeah
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10:51 AM markus: by generically specifying discovery heuristics.
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10:52 AM Do you have an idea on how to verify that it's indeed the correct binary? Just calling the bin might be dangerous.
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10:53 AM me: That's a good point. Hadn't thought about malicious bins
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markus: Might also be slightly expensive to call several binaries.
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me: I'm thinking... :)
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  What do you mean expensive?
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10:54 AM markus: performance
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10:55 AM something like "aBinary --version" shouldn't be too expensive but we can't be sure of the side effects.
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  On the other hand using something like a checksum might be too strict and I don't know of a fuzzy checksum. ;o
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10:56 AM me: 1 possibility, which isn't very flexible, would be to rely on the registry or environment variables
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  But of course sometimes, the program isn't registered
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10:57 AM markus: This would require the user to setup the environment or the tool to register appropriately.
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  But the environment, registry,... could still be used to gather knowledge about the system.
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10:58 AM me: I understand the danger of calling random binaries but perhaps its not so much of a problem since other programs out there do it all time when they "auto-detect" the location of your JDK or some other program
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11:00 AM markus: Well, lets leave the verification open for the moment but lets not forget about it either.
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11:01 AM me: Yeah. That was a very good point you brought up
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11:02 AM markus: In regards of free documentation for eclipse
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eclipse.org/articles
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wiki.eclipse.org
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help system
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eclipsezone
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news.eclipse.org
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11:03 AM I found http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Building-Commercial-Quality-Plug-ins-2nd/dp/032142672X/ref=sr_1_1/102-0371229-4118559?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179241370&sr=8-1 to be very helpful too.
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  You might find it in a library.
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  Otherwise those $43 are worth it.
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11:04 AM me: ah. I'll check out the articles first and then probably pick up the book too.
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  Someone else blogged about using that same book
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11:05 AM markus: I think it's the most comprehensive book on plug-in development.
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  Though with 3.3 it is slightly outdated, but not much.
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11:06 AM me: okey-doke
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markus: Have you thought about a way to describe the heuristics?
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11:07 AM me: I've been reading about Drools and it seems like it might save me from having to invent a mini-language for heuristics
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11:08 AM markus: Great you picked the idea up. :)
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me: :) yup
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  It sounded like you'd worked on it a bit
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11:09 AM howdja get into it?
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markus: I read a thesis about rules engines and drools in particular.
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  And I can contact the author if necessary.
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11:10 AM me: oh wow. What was the thesis about?
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markus: using rules engines for implementing business logic in applications.
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  unfortunately its written in german.
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11:11 AM me: ah...
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  I gotta hurry up on them Lektions :)
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11:12 AM markus: Next Saturday you won't be in town?
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  But the one thereafter?!
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11:13 AM me: Yeah
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  Actually...
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  I think I'll have access to internet where I'm going
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  (I'll be at a graduation which is onthe Monday after)
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11:14 AM markus: But it isn't your graduation, is it?
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me: Oh no no no
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markus: otherwise you might face problems with payment. ;)
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11:16 AM me: <sigh> I'd love to meet then but I won't even know where I might end up that Saturday (since Friday will be a big party for all the graduates and their friends)
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  (and I might not be sober by then :) )
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markus: I guess i understand. ;)
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11:17 AM me: So for now, I guess the project can be condensed to:
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  An implementation of a rule engine for detectin binaries on an FS
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  ?
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  *detecting
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11:18 AM markus: With the detection part being as generic as possible so it won't be hard to extend it beyond the local fs.
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me: yup
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11:19 AM markus: So more like: A framework based on a rules engine to detect "services" with an exemplary local fs implementation.
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11:20 AM me: Ah yes. I like that :)
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markus: Btw any news in regards to the paperwork?
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me: No. I sent mine in yesterday, though
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11:21 AM markus: The Google or the Eclipse ones?
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me: Could you please tell me where I can find the buttons that say whether they've been received?
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  oh ah. um the google ones
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11:22 AM markus: Tbh I don't know of any button. You might want to ask other students either on #eclipse-soc, soc-dev@eclipse.org or the official google ml.
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  Might be best to sent a question to soc-dev. Other might search for the same button. ;)
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11:23 AM me: True true. Although the topic was beaten to death a few weeks ago...while I wasn't looking for the button
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  And so I didn't join it then
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  I'm gonna be so hated :)
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  Anyway...
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11:24 AM markus: I haven't seen anything on this topic on the soc-dev ml. %)
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me: oh. Sorry, I meant the Google ml
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  You're right. I'm hitting up soc-dev
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  BTW, should I put our chat logs on on the wiki?
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11:25 AM markus: IRC or this one?
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  IIRC for IRC the group agreed on not putting the up.
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11:26 AM them
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me: Well, the IRC...and all the "official" meetings
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  I thought it'd be nice to have em all in one place fore reference
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markus: Currently there is some discussion ongoing on how we wanna "monitor" the projects.
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11:27 AM Either inside the wiki, the mailinglist or with bugs in bugzilla.
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  Or even blog posts.
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me: About that, isn't monitoring projects via bugs kind of an abuse of the system?
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11:28 AM I mean, isn't bugzilla meant for bugs?
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  just wondering
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markus: The eclipse development process makes heavy use of bugzilla for all kind of issues so I don't think it would be a problem.
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  chatlogs could go in as attachments.
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11:29 AM me: OK
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  So I guess the answer is to wait until y'all decide the means we should use to track our discussions, eh?
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11:30 AM markus: I guess so
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me: 'key-doke
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11:31 AM One last question:
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  How do you manage to be so enthusiastic about Eclipse all the time?
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  Whenever I talk to you or Remy, I just get all fired up with Eclipse-coding-passion
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11:32 AM markus: Well, I spent nearly all day working with Eclipse. In the evening I'm not that enthusiastic anymore. ;)
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  But working here in India is more exhausting than back home.
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen, lemmy: Should we go ahead and get started?
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*** Topic is: SOC 2007 @ Eclipse is on! http://code.google.com/soc - Get help with ~help - List of accepted applications: http://code.google.com/soc/eclipse/about.html  - Find information here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2007 - Be patient and stick around for an answer - Subscribe to the mailinglist https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-dev
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<lemmy> sure
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*** Topic set by pombreda [Sun Apr 15 18:10:57 2007]
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<rcjsuen> yes, let's do that
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*** onnadi3 faern arhan pombred1 benny`patchslut rcjsuen kynes soulreaper lemmy Pookzilla zx KOS-MOS ijuma
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<onnadi3> I would like us to go over the outstanding bugs so I can get an idea for fixing them
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*** Channel created on Sun Nov 26 00:42:43 2006
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<rcjsuen> before my teammates come in ;p
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen, lemmy: sorry, people. I'd been waiting in #eclipse_soc ...
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<onnadi3> 1. Improve configuration of new Discovery Finders
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: oh, sorry I was not clear
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<onnadi3> ~198121
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<lemmy> Hi Ogehi
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<KOS-MOS> See bug 198121 - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=198121
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<lemmy> +c
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<rcjsuen> query https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Technology&product=SOC&component=org.eclipse.soc.discovery&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPEN
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<onnadi3> Hello, Markus
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<rcjsuen> ED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: nah, its my fault. I've been here before :-)
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<rcjsuen> or not
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<onnadi3> What's been happening in SoC, today?
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<rcjsuen> i see it got mangled
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<lemmy> do we have a log?
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: how'd you get to that page?
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<onnadi3> Ach, I'm using a web client that doesn't support logging...
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<rcjsuen> what page
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<onnadi3> Can you log?
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<rcjsuen> the query?
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<lemmy> yep, i'll log our conversations.
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<onnadi3> yeah
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<onnadi3> Good. Thanks
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<rcjsuen> i just constructed one from bugzilla
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen, lemmy: Shall we get down to business?
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<onnadi3> could you give me the parameters? I've tried it unsuccessfully before
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<lemmy> later i'll try to setup logging which redirects to html.
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<lemmy> why does find() return null? why not make the method abstract?
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<lemmy> onnadi3: sure :)
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<rcjsuen> I guess this one is better ;) https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=SOC&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
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<rcjsuen> Yes, I'm here.
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<rcjsuen> even tho we see the other bugs but anyway
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<onnadi3> Excellent!
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<onnadi3> lemmy: It returns null because I haven't yet implemented it. I should have noted that
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<lemmy> remy: you got my email with the proposed agenda?
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<onnadi3> Let me give the sequence of calls to Finder
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<onnadi3> Yup.
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<rcjsuen> yeah that's what i figured
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: yeah
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<rcjsuen> so i didn't say anything there
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<onnadi3> Quick question before we start: does Eclipse have a "find in files" function?
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<onnadi3> a. You construct the Finder
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<rcjsuen> in my INBOX
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<onnadi3> b. You call find() whenever you want the service discovered
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<rcjsuen> too
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<onnadi3> c. You call unfind() whenever you want the service undiscovered. There is also a separate thread that monitors the found service and calls unfind() at regular intervals
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<lemmy> ok, wasn't sure if it got caught in the spam filter again. %)
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<onnadi3> that's it
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: if you use the search it'll search all open projects, dunno about specifying specific files
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<lemmy> "You" is who in the JRE scenario?
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: wel-, i am sure everyone is busy (except me), let's get started?
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<onnadi3> "You" is the person subclassing Finder e.g. JREFinder, MakeFinder etc.
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: alrighty. Thanks
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<lemmy> That I don't get
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<onnadi3> Sure, let's start
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<lemmy> Let me put it this way, who calls this methods during runtime?
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<lemmy> do we consider the channel log our meetings minutes?
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<onnadi3> The JREFinder plugin, for example
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<onnadi3> Sounds fine
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<rcjsuen> In its start method?
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<rcjsuen> fine by me
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<lemmy> Doesn't the JREFinder implement the Finder?
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<lemmy> has either of you anything to add to the agenda?
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: Query for all discovery bugs https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=SOC&component=org.eclipse.soc.discovery query for open ones https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=SOC&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=org.eclipse.soc.discovery
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<onnadi3> Nope
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<lemmy> s/implement/extend
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<rcjsuen> seems ok
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: you mean who instantiates it and calls find(), right?
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<rcjsuen> if something comes up i will say something
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<onnadi3> That is one way. The other would be to expose the Finder class and have it called whenever the user clicks a button. That is how the JREFinder plugin is built right now actually
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<lemmy> ok, so lets get started with "project documentation".
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: yep
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<lemmy> i guess the wiki is a good place to keep general text.
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<onnadi3> I guess we should use "finder plugin" for the plugin and "JREFinder" for the class. And yes, JREFinder implements Finder
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<lemmy> but what about diagrams and such, do we wanna use UML? do we need it?
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<lemmy> So the finder plug-in calls find() on JREFinder and passes the result to the ECF discovery API?
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<lemmy> Ogechi: are you familiar with UML?
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Actually, how I described it was that calling find() would automatically pass the result to the ECF Discovery API
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<rcjsuen> I've never used UML outside of school, so I am fine if we don't use it
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: thanks for the links
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<rcjsuen> and that was for like...one term
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<rcjsuen> so what exactly is the Collection for?
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<onnadi3> lemmy: I know of it but haven't used it. It'll be useful if we get're building a boatload of classes
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<rcjsuen> Or wait the Colection is what's been found or?
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<onnadi3> lemmy: I think we should start with prose first and get into UML as the need arises
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<lemmy> so find() passes it to the PluginDiscoveryService ds instance?
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<lemmy> fine with me, lets try to limit the new things in this project.
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: the Collection is not strictly necessary. I thought it would be nice to have a list of what was found
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<lemmy> s/things/technology
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<rcjsuen> ah kk
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: agreed
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<lemmy> I would separate it into find() and populate().
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<onnadi3> agreed
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<lemmy> populate() passes the find() result to ds
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<lemmy> so for the project we will work with written text.
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Shouldn't we have instead, find(), populate() and findAndPopulate()?
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<onnadi3> For documentation, we'll basically need inline comments, and perhaps a "how to hack" document, right?
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<onnadi3> So that plug-in writers don't have to do populate(Finder.find())
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<onnadi3> lemmy: yup
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: if we go that route i'd prefer a find() and a find(boolean populate) for populating, I don't like findAndPopulate ;p
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<rcjsuen> yes, the atter is extremey important
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: this look so c-ish
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<rcjsuen> there goes my keys again
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<onnadi3> okey-dokey :-)
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<lemmy> what do you guys understand under a "how to hack"?
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<lemmy> looks
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<rcjsuen> for there to be users, you need to have a good howto guide
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: funny, beacuse I don't know C at all
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<rcjsuen> because we are a-- -azy and woud rather not try to figure out how to use a too-
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<rcjsuen> except hello world
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<onnadi3> "how-to-hack: A doc describing how a program was built to aid other developers in modifying it later"
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<rcjsuen> and how to make a struct
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: been typing too long? ;-)
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<rcjsuen> I think that's about it
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: maybe, dunno, oh wel-
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<lemmy> Why have a parameter to change the behavior of a method? make two methods out of it. :)
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<lemmy> to me this sound a little bit too generic. i'd like to narrow it down, so we all expect the same from it.
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<onnadi3> But wouldn't it just be simpler to have the one method that find()s, populate()s and returns the found services?
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<lemmy> i guess this tool isn't targetted on end users, hence an isv might be appropriate.
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: I'm just applyign the same idea from JFace viewers refresh/update and SWT widgets layout methods
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<rcjsuen> true
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: they are pretty c-ish too. ;o
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<onnadi3> what is an ISV?
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: so by that you mean we have a populate() method that's populating _and_ returns the found services, yesA?
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<rcjsuen> embedded in ec-ipse -ike what p-atform does?
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<lemmy> Anyway, I still don't get the whole picture...
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<rcjsuen> something software vendor i think it is
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: having to call dispose() is pretty C-ish ;)
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<rcjsuen> independent maybe
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: Yeah
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<onnadi3> For the "how to hack"  what I had in mind was something like the documentation for TeX: sthg. that describes data structures used and mnotivation for it. Is this still, too generic
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: dispose(*widget) would be c-ish. dispose() is rather c++-ish. .P
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<onnadi3> not in WEB, of course
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: that was a yeah regarding your comment about populating and returning
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<lemmy> maybe we should divide it. we need documentation for people working with the code base and also for people using the codebase.
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: I see.
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<lemmy> for the latter the typical eclipse documentation for extensionpoints... would probably be the best. for the former i would choose uml. ;p
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<rcjsuen> true, we're not doing free(this)
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<onnadi3> lemmy: by, people using the codebase, do you mean end-users?
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: yep
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<lemmy> We have the PluginDiscoveryService which acts as the general API for consumers like JREInjector. Consumers get discovery results from the PluginDiscoveryService for a given type.
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<lemmy> but i suppose such end-users would be developer too.
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<lemmy> Also we have Finders which report discovery results to PluginDiscoveryService
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<lemmy> +s
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<lemmy> reporting results to PluginDiscoveryService is something in the responsibility of the Finders?
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<onnadi3> Yeah, so the "how to hack" will be targetted to developers, and the end-user docs can ba called the user manual
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Yes, since there is no one else for them to report to
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<lemmy> makes sense to me
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<lemmy> onnadi3: what's with Finders registering themselfs at the PluginDiscoveryService?
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<onnadi3> (good point about needing separte docs)
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<lemmy> Then the PluginDiscoveryService would call find() on all registered finders
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<lemmy> anything to add in regards to doc?
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<lemmy> registering could be done via OSGi services (but that's just the technical side of it).
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<rcjsuen> newp
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<onnadi3> I think its the other way round. The Finder takes a pointer to the PluginDiscoveryService so that it can call registerService()
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<onnadi3> The user manual will have the usual stuff like "how to install", how to use, how to uninstall etc. while the dev-docs will just describe how to extend the plugin etc.
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<lemmy> are we talking about registering the finder at the plugindiscoveryservice?
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<lemmy> since the code will be bundled as plug-ins, we won't need a install/uninstall doc. this is descibed in the osgi/eclipse documentation.
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<lemmy> that is the basic necessity, if plugindiscoveryservice should be responsible for calling find()...
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<lemmy> onnadi3: is this your first eclipse plug-in you write?
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<onnadi3> The reason why we can't have PDS calling find() on all Finders is because you never know when someone will want a service found e.g. in the case of having a GUI button that starts the finding process
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<onnadi3> ahem...yeah
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<lemmy> onnadi3: true, but it means also that we cannot issue a global find() on all finders.
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<lemmy> question is, what is the main use case.
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<lemmy> no problem :)
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<lemmy> PluginDiscoveryService might offer discover() and discover(IServiceType)
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<rcjsuen> no worries, a lot of ppl last year never wrote a plug-in
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<onnadi3> what does discover() do? Call find() on all Finders?
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<lemmy> onnadi3: do you have eclipse open atm?
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<lemmy> while the first is for issuing a general find() on all finders independent of the type, the latter is for calling find() on specific finders.
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<onnadi3> I'm opening it right now
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<lemmy> ok, i'll grab a new cup of coffee.
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<rcjsuen> I like that.
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<rcjsuen> That means he hasnt gone over to the dark side yet.
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<onnadi3> Doesn't that make what we did with JREFinder impossible then? i.e. have a GUI that initiates the find process. I'm not saying that JREFinder is the best model for structuring finders...
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<onnadi3> oh boy... :-)
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<lemmy> with the dark side being?
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<lemmy> onnadi3: The gui would be finder independent.
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<onnadi3> BTW, (while eclipse loads) are we going to hashout all the details of what will be in the docs, or just the general plan?
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<onnadi3> Ah yes
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<rcjsuen> if you have eclipse open all the time even when you don't really need it
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<lemmy> The current button wouldn't call JREFinder directly anymore, but PluginDiscoveryService.discovery(aJREType)
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<onnadi3> (Eclipse is up!)
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<rcjsuen> mmm yes
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<lemmy> for me the general plan is enough atm.
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<lemmy> If there is no Finder for the given IServiceType registered, nothing would happen.
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<onnadi3> okey-dokey
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<lemmy> onnadi3: calling the specific finder directly also has the disadvantage, that you cannot easily have different finders for the same type.
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<rcjsuen> as the project (and its scope) is defined (and refined), the details will hash themselves out I think
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<lemmy> imagine a RegistryJREFinder and a FilesystemJREFinder.
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<lemmy> i just want to make sure, we agree on the same thing. :)
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<onnadi3> lemmy: jolly good point
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: glad to see the fire of your Eclipse youth is not out ;)
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<lemmy> They both discovery the same IServiceType "JRE"
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<onnadi3> lemmy: alrighty
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<lemmy> Finder would then only implement IDiscoveryResult find() and unfind(IDiscoveryResult) maybe renamed to refresh(IDiscoveryResult)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: if you open the help system, the "JDT plug-in developer guide" might be a good example of what i think would be good end-user doc.
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<lemmy> But this would leave PluginDiscoveryService responsible for keeping and updating IDiscoveryResults for undiscovery.
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<lemmy> certainly not that big though
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<lemmy> I'm not sure if this is a big disadvantage.
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<onnadi3> Ah. I see and understand
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<onnadi3> It can always delegate to the Finders, can't it?
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<onnadi3> That's some pretty documentation
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<lemmy> All this matches stuff could be handled inside the Finder
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<rcjsuen> imo one of the first things that should be done in the documentation phase is properly bui-ding a source plug-in + embedded docs as above
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<lemmy> onnadi3: PluginDiscoveryService will delegate the unfind/refresh of the IDiscvoeryResult to the Finder, but it needs to keep track of IDiscoveryResults.
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<lemmy> btw. suppose we're all happy with the outcome of the project at the end of summer, could you imagine to continue working on the project?
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<onnadi3> I believe it already does that
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<onnadi3> "source plugin"?
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<lemmy> perfect :)
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: something that includes the java source code of the binary jar that you distribute
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<onnadi3> If we have Finders registering with PluginDiscoveryService through extension points, how will (for instance) the GUI be able to initiate a find()?
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: yes good question
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<rcjsuen> isn't that the discovery(IServiceType.JRE) thing?
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<onnadi3> Hell yeah, I'd continue. This is my first shot at real fame und fortune :)
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<lemmy> The GUI will need to get the PluginDiscoveryService instance and call discover() on it.
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: many students from the previous year, if you wi-- move on as we--, that is not an issue
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: exactly
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<lemmy> onnadi3: the question aims at the "internal" documentation. if you're still around to answer questions, we don't need a thoroughly doc.
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<lemmy> The current button wouldn't call JREFinder directly anymore, but PluginDiscoveryService.discovery(aJREType)
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<lemmy> though it is desirable.
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<lemmy> Getting the PluginDiscoveryService reference in the GUI can be done via OSGi.
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<onnadi3> Very desirable. You never know when I might get run over by a bus
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<lemmy> lets hope not at all. ;o
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<onnadi3> So I think we're good for the user docs. For the dev docs, are y'all fine with something like the TeX docs?
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<onnadi3> Aaaaah
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<lemmy> you mean something written in tex? i must confess, i don't know the tex documentation.
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<onnadi3> I see
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<onnadi3> Oh no no. I mean, the documentation of TeX
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: Could you please tell us the method names you would have preferred for the Finder class?
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<lemmy> s/must/have to
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<rcjsuen> isMatch -> matches
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<onnadi3> http://tex.loria.fr/tex-source/tex-source.html
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<lemmy> I've just submitted a IFinder proposal as a bug comment
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<onnadi3> You'll need a dvi previewer to view it
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<rcjsuen> dunno about initPotentialMatches(), unfind is pretty weird but dunno if there are better options
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<onnadi3> Basically, I'm just thinking of documentation as detailed as that so that someone can easily understand the source
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: to 198121?
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<rcjsuen> if you can go a-- out, that wou-d be great
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<lemmy> yep
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<lemmy> i like detailed. ;)
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<onnadi3> lemmy: what is the boolean in refresh() supposed to be?
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<onnadi3> Deal
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<rcjsuen> now bugzila worked
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<onnadi3> So that'll be all the documentation we need for this project right? Are we ready to move on to the next poin in the agenda?
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<lemmy> onnadi3: pretty much what unfind() did.
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<lemmy> what i usually miss the most in terms of project documentation, is the big picture and the major design.
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<rcjsuen> Eh?
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: i think so
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<onnadi3> Sorry, I meant what is the return value of refresh()?
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<lemmy> i don't need a class that contains more javadoc than code.
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<lemmy> but IFinder is stateless. I doesn't keep track which IDiscoveryResults have been found before.
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<lemmy> yep, enough for the documentation. ;)
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<lemmy> boolean
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<lemmy> s/for the/with
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<lemmy> valid
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<lemmy> the next topic i'd like to see going into the project doc. ;)
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<lemmy> is the given IDiscoveryResult still valid or not
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<lemmy> "Define some terms/Narrow down or extend the scope"
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<rcjsuen> hm
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<lemmy> i think we should try to come up with a clear understanding of what a service can and cannot be.
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<rcjsuen> validate(IDR) maybe? ;p
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<lemmy> this will most certainly influence the scope of the project.
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<rcjsuen> that's kinda like refresh
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<lemmy> i could imagine using the wiki page (where i already created a section for it) ;)
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<rcjsuen> we're validating it again
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<lemmy> what is a service? what identifies a service...
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<rcjsuen> or maybe not
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<lemmy> is the term service even approriate...
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<lemmy> true :)
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<rcjsuen> maybe not
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<rcjsuen> maybe validate implies a shortop
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<lemmy> the current use cases lead to something that i won't really call a service.
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<rcjsuen> whereas refresh is a longop?
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<onnadi3> Well, a service can be anything that can be identified with URI...but for this Summer, my goal was only to write finders for services on the local machine
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<rcjsuen> hm
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: you want jdk autodetection, i don't think one woud really call a java runtime a esrvice
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<rcjsuen> service is something i shou-d be ab-e to restart through /etc/init.d
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<rcjsuen> and whatever that thing in Win32 is
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<onnadi3> Shouldn't we also have a method that refreshes all the previously found IDiscoveryResults?
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: or via the osgi console ;)
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<rcjsuen> like a validateAll()?
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<lemmy> maybe we should do the use cases before we define the term?
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<onnadi3> Yeah
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<onnadi3> lemmy: perhaps. May we start with some from the proposal?
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<rcjsuen> hm
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<lemmy> sure :)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: IFinder.refreshAll()?
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<rcjsuen> markus: good idea
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<onnadi3> And it could return a Collection of still valid IDRs
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<onnadi3> BTW, rcjsuen, do you have access to a copy of the proposal?
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<lemmy> but this implies that IFinder knows about previously discovered IDiscoveryResults.
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<lemmy> should this be our homework assignment to write down the use cases on the wiki page? we could even ask other people to add theirs.
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<rcjsuen> Maybe take a Collection and pass back a Collection of valid ones?
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<rcjsuen> markus: yes
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<onnadi3> Oh!!! I see your point, Markus. PDS is already keeping track of IDRs
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<onnadi3> Well, one case is like lemmy said, JDK, or gcc, or PERL detection
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<lemmy> well, this is just convenient API then.boolean validate(IDiscoveryResult) is the minimum.
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: you need to change your name to start with a key that i dont -ose ha-fway
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<lemmy> Well, one problem arises with IFinder not keeping track of IDiscoveryResults. PDS needs to know by which specific IFinder instance the IDiscoveryResult has been found earlier.
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<lemmy> The RegistryJREFinder probably cannot verify an IDR discovered by the FilesystemJREFinder
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: maybe you should get yourself a new keyboard instead. ;)
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<onnadi3> Akk! This means that PluginDiscoveryService will have to handle polling when it comes to undiscovery
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<rcjsuen> it sounds -ike we are detecting binaries
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<lemmy> The IDS instance could store the IFinder by which is has been found.
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<rcjsuen> nuh-uh! :(
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<lemmy> polling? PDS certainly is responsible for refreshing IDS and hence needs to ask the various IFinders regularly.
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<onnadi3> Well, the logic for detecting binaries is exactly the same needed to find a Webserver on port 80
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<lemmy> Btw validate sounds more like verification of an IDS. I tend to refresh
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<onnadi3> (well, kinna the same)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: lets collect use cases until the next meeting. then we choose some of them which make the most sense and compile the deliverables out of it?
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<lemmy> verification in terms of "is this IDS really a Sun JRE 1.4"...
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Could you please point me to the page you created?
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<onnadi3> lemmy: what is IDS?
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<lemmy> until then i think we should postpone the remaining technical agenda items.
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<rcjsuen> I'm fine with refresh
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<lemmy> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/An_auto-configuration_plugin_for_Eclipse
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<lemmy> s/IDS/IDR
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<onnadi3> Alrighty! So, on to the organizational items, eh?
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<onnadi3> okey-dokey. So i guesswe're pretty much done with this bug, apart from naming?
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: btw. i'll ask phillipe to grant you mentor rights in code.google.com.
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<rcjsuen> yeah
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<lemmy> onnadi3: unless you have something technical to add. :)
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<onnadi3> Bug no.2: Decide on the CDT tools to provide discovery for
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<onnadi3> lemmy: BTW, thanks for putting that page up
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<lemmy> I got a question, ca we move our meeting permanently to monday afternoon ~17:30pm?
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<onnadi3> lemmy: nope, I'm ready to get orgnanized :)
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<onnadi3> Sure, if it works with Remy
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<lemmy> nah, don't mention it. that's what i'm here for.
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<rcjsuen> What time is that
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<lemmy> ok, "weekly status meetings".
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<lemmy> 11:30
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<lemmy> however, normally i prefer daily standup meetings, but this seems to be a problem timezone-wise.
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<rcjsuen> ooo, that collides directly with my weekly meeting
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<lemmy> at least for me. you two live in the same tz.
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<rcjsuen> Although that meeting isn't that important
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<onnadi3> oh we do?
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<rcjsuen> cuz we can bring our notebooks
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: where are you?
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<rcjsuen> it's an informal status update
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<onnadi3> *where do you live?
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<rcjsuen> I think it's fine
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: canada
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<lemmy> perfect, so next meeting is 07/30 11:30am EDT
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<onnadi3> excellent
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<onnadi3> ALrighty
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<lemmy> onnadi3: and he's normally on irc 24/7 ;)
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<rcjsuen> ok
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<onnadi3> hehehe
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<onnadi3> So,  Bug no.2: Decide on the CDT tools to provide discovery for
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<onnadi3> I think we should have one weekly meeting, any weekday except Friday
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<onnadi3> ~197885
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<lemmy> for the moment i'd suggest to use this timeslot for our weekly meetings?!
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<KOS-MOS> See bug 197885 - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=197885
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<onnadi3> ahh...
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<onnadi3> (I like doing that :-))
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<lemmy> is it too early=
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<onnadi3> Shall we be sticking with CDT?
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<lemmy> ?
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<lemmy> I'm still +1 for CDT even if it means we only do discovery of make
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<rcjsuen> ten am is fine with me
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<rcjsuen> yeah
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<onnadi3> Could we push it back an hour or so. This waking up on a Saturday thing...  :-D
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<rcjsuen> i never see people complain about setting up pdt
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<rcjsuen> considering i wake up before seven sometimes
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<rcjsuen> (well install is hard)
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<rcjsuen> yes, i just said i wake up before seven sometimes
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<onnadi3> So, we need to test if make is in the PATH, and if it is not, find where it is installed on the system
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<onnadi3> Even in the summer??
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<lemmy> well, we wan't to discover all installations ofmake and not just the one in make.
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<rcjsuen> yes
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<lemmy> s/make/path
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<rcjsuen> rather, even on the weekends
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<onnadi3> The thing is the CDT interface doesn't really have a drop-down list like JDT does
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<onnadi3> <cringes> you're strong :)
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<onnadi3> All it has is a text box where you can enter the name of the make command you want to use
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<lemmy> maybe we can move it to sunday then?
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<lemmy> postponed until Monday? The other bug will keep you busy anyway, right?
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<rcjsuen> sunday is sti-- a weekend ;p
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<lemmy> the nightclubs in india close around 1:30
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<onnadi3> sure :-)
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<onnadi3> hahahahahhaa
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<onnadi3> Sweet meeting y'all
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<lemmy> then i'm fine with 11:00am EST/8:30pm IST.
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<onnadi3> See ya soon
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<onnadi3> Alright. Saturdays, 11am EST/8:30pm IST starting from May 28?
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<lemmy> Sundays, 11am EST/8:30pm IST
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<rcjsuen> we are actua--y EDT, but okay ;p
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<rcjsuen> if we are fo--owing -ast yr-s schedu-e
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<onnadi3> Hmm, could we move it back to Saturday? 11am is kinna smack in the middle of church time
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<onnadi3> on Sundays, that is
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<rcjsuen> probab-y a week-y soc meeting on thursdays
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<onnadi3> rcjsuen: I second that
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: which time?
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: last year the whole group met on 1200 EDT and, er
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<rcjsuen> twenty-one hundred?
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<lemmy> yep
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<rcjsuen> Two meetings are held every Thursday:
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<rcjsuen>    1. 0900 PDT - 1200 EDT - 1600 UTC
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<rcjsuen>   2. 1600 PDT - 1900 EDT - 2300 UTC
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<rcjsuen> newp, nineteen hundred
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<rcjsuen> we had two to compensate time zone things
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<rcjsuen> (and commitments, of course, work/school/wahtever)
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<rcjsuen> dunno what is philippe's plan this yr
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<rcjsuen> hello my L key!
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<rcjsuen> oh nm its dead again ;(
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<onnadi3> aww
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<onnadi3> The Ls were nice :)
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<lemmy> I won't make 2300 utc for sure.
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<lemmy> 1600 will be hard too, considering that the day starts early in india. but i guess i don't have an option.
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<onnadi3> So, we'll be meeting on Thursdays and Saturdays, eh?
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: how long do those meetings usually last?
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<rcjsuen> er, we--
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<rcjsuen> we have doub-e the students this round ;p
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<rcjsuen> sometimes they go over an hr
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<lemmy> onnadi3: for saturday 10:30am EDT/8:00pm IST as a compromise? ;o
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<rcjsuen> anyway, this is un-ike-y to be set in stone
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<rcjsuen> since pom wou-d want to get a fee- for what students agree on this yr
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<onnadi3> lemmy: sure. (their clubs must be *really* good ;) )
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<lemmy> onnadi3: it's better than being home alone. ;)
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: i'm home alone all the time
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: you're still young.
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<onnadi3> hahahahha
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<lemmy> so, saturdays 10:30am EDT/8:00pm IST it is?
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<rcjsuen> fine by me
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<onnadi3> fine by me
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<onnadi3> And this is starting from May 28?
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<lemmy> i don't mind if you have your breakfast while typing. ;)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: that depends on you. if it were for me, we could start right away.
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<onnadi3> lemmy: I'd love to start too but I'll be out of town three out of the coming four Saturdays
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<lemmy> just the saturdays or the whole week?
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<onnadi3> Just the weekends
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<onnadi3> So, I *could* work and send you updates by e-mail or whenever I catch you on IRC
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<rcjsuen> either would work
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: i suppose we won't start with the regular thursday meetings before the official gsoc beginning?
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<rcjsuen> un-ike-y
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<rcjsuen> the fact that not many ppl are here means something ;)
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<onnadi3> Cool, so I guess that's meeting schedules done with
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<onnadi3> Next up: deliverables?
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<lemmy> lets postpone it. currently everything is too vague to actually write it down.
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<rcjsuen> yes
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<lemmy> also for the milestones/road map
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<rcjsuen> yeep
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<onnadi3> On the topic of project housing, does Eclipse still use CVS for legacy reasons?
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<lemmy> eclipse.org offers svn as well as cvs.
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<rcjsuen> cvs works so we stick with cvs i spose
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<lemmy> onnadi3: you're familiar with svn?
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<onnadi3> Yup...and I love it
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<onnadi3> So, if we could use it instead of cvs... ;)
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<lemmy> I'm fine with svn too. If it is technically possible, we should you is. But first we need to talk about the license you want to choose for the code.
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<lemmy> this is important if we can or cannot use eclipse.org
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<lemmy> onnadi3: do you have a license model in mind?
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<rcjsuen> There is also the issue of 3rd party libs
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<rcjsuen> to factor into the equation, if any
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<onnadi3> um...I'm a big fan of "Do as you damned well please, just don't give it the same name as mine"
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: maybe you like to elaborate on this topic?
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<onnadi3> Is there a license for that?
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<rcjsuen> we--, licenses ilke those would probably be compatible with the ep
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<rcjsuen> epl
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<rcjsuen> onnadi3: for these super-lax licenses, you probaby want to -ook at mit or bsd
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<rcjsuen> http://www.opensource.org/osi3.0/licenses/bsd-license.php and http://www.opensource.org/osi3.0/licenses/mit-license.php
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<onnadi3> And those could still be added to the Eclipse source??
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<lemmy> onnadi3: if we want to see the code included in eclipse someday, the easiest would be to choose epl.
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<lemmy> but there is also the possibility of cross-licensing
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<rcjsuen> they can be committed to cvs but afaik, no one _works_ on the code that is under a different license at eclipse.org
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<rcjsuen> like we distribute ant with eclipse, but of course, ant development is done by Apache
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<onnadi3> ah. Then I probably want EPL.
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<rcjsuen> yes, dual-tri-multi-licensing schemes work too, as lemmy points out
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<rcjsuen> last yr i dual-ed mine
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<onnadi3> what licenses didja use?
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<rcjsuen> but when it came time to throw it on eclipse, i just removed the dual references
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<rcjsuen> i used MIT/X11 with EPL
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<rcjsuen> but yes, the easiest way out is to pick epl
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<lemmy> just keep in mind that epl and gpl are incompatible.
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<lemmy> it won't be possible to use gpl 3rd party libraries.
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<onnadi3> alrighty
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<lemmy> for drools i've checked already and it's apache license.
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<lemmy> just in case we'll use it.
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<onnadi3> lemmy: what is in the apache license?
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<onnadi3> (and where did you pick up "for drools"? ;) )
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<lemmy> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
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<onnadi3> Sorry, I meant what were you referring to when  you said "I've checked"?
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<lemmy> drools is a rules engine which might get useful.
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<lemmy> maybe it's overkill though
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<onnadi3> oh...ah...I thought you were using it as a turn of phrase :)
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<lemmy> hehe, no.
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<onnadi3> Alright, so I guess its sorted for now: Eclipse license...unless we really need a library with a different license
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<lemmy> personally i think epl makes sense since i see this code going into eclipse at some point.
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<rcjsuen> yes, I think some of the projects will find it handy
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<onnadi3> here here
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<lemmy> if we agree on epl, we should get the paperwork rolling. i'll probably take a couple of weeks to get it done.
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<onnadi3> Paperwork?? What do we need to do?
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: paperwork for
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<lemmy> new committer?
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<rcjsuen> lemmy: well, i guess ask pombred1/wayne to get the ball rolling
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: i don't think philippe plans to do it in a batch.
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<lemmy> http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/new-committer.php
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<rcjsuen> we--, i did not mean -iterally
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<rcjsuen> batch per se in a way cuz we need to hand in the names when we recreate soc component
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<ijuma> (if there are questions that is)
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<lemmy> ijuma: great, good to know somebody personally. :-)
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<ijuma> it's Mark Proctor btw
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<ijuma> the lead developer
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<lemmy> perfect
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<onnadi3> Does new committer have anythign to do with the license we choose?
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<ijuma> lemmy: yeah, irc is cool :)
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<lemmy> _if_ ogechi chooses to use a rule engine after all. ;)
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<ijuma> well, irc is still cool anyway ;)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: indirectly...
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<rcjsuen> It has to do with
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<rcjsuen> "DO NOT commit non-EPLed code"
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<lemmy> onnadi3: to get a developer account at eclipse.org, you need to go through this new committer process.
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<onnadi3> Ah, I got it
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<lemmy> using eclipse.org infrastructre makes only sense if you choose epl as a license.
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<onnadi3> lemmy: Don't I have to "prove my mettle" by at least writing some code first? That way it'll feel more special :)
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<lemmy> onnadi3: "normally" it is like that. you need to gain "meritocracy points" to be elected as a committer.
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<lemmy> but for soc it is different.
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<lemmy> this bug might make things clearer https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=143583
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<lemmy> rcjsuen: correct me if i'm wrong, you know far more about this.
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<onnadi3> It does clear things up
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<lemmy> in #eclipse we have our first use case i suppose. ;)
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<onnadi3> in that case, I guess we've covered all possible ground today
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<lemmy> and it only took use 1,5h. ;)
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<rcjsuen> har
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<rcjsuen> but yes, the idea wou-d have been
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<onnadi3> We should probably try to meet up again to clear up the biz about deliverables etc.
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<rcjsuen> keep contributing till you drop
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<rcjsuen> but since it is a "new project
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<rcjsuen> new project has an initial set of committers
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<rcjsuen> so you guys will all be a subset of that set
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<rcjsuen> the other subset would be the mentors
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<lemmy> to wrap things up a litte...
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<lemmy> we'll have two different docs. end-user doc in the eclipse isv format and the internal doc like the tex doc
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<lemmy> until next week we'll write down use cases in the wiki
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<lemmy> the next irc status meeting will be on may 28
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<lemmy> project will be licensed under epl
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<rcjsuen> kk
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<lemmy> regular status meetings will be on saturdays 10:30am EDT/8:00pm IST
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<onnadi3> So, I guess the conversation will continue asynchronously over the wiki...on the issue of use cases
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<lemmy> also we'll have general soc status meetings for which the final timing is still TBA
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<rcjsuen> yes
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<onnadi3> Sounds like a plan y'all
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<lemmy> onnadi3: you can add the wiki page to your watchlist. that way you'll receive emails once somebody modifies the page.
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<rcjsuen> wow that is friggin annoying
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<lemmy> one last thing. onnadi3 do you have a blog?
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<onnadi3> I don't have a blog
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<onnadi3> I thought the wiki was meant for updates on the status of the project etc.?
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<lemmy> idea is to create a blog for the three of us which we use to blog about the project. (eclipse has a vibrant blogging scene)
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<lemmy> http://planet.eclipse.org
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<onnadi3> Can't that be on the wiki page? It would fit nicely there
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<lemmy> it don't think it is technically possible to add a wiki page to the planet.
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<lemmy> also we'd not use it for technical discussion, much rather for PR instead.
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<lemmy> it's just an idea though. i don't wanna talk you into it.l
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<onnadi3> I'll see about that. I would like to put up general thoughts about the state of the project and all
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<lemmy> in general feel free to stop me/us if we rush things. :)
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<rcjsuen> :)
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<onnadi3> No problem. Things are sauntering by for now so I think I can handle it :)
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<lemmy> if you don't feel comfortable with something, just raise you voice.
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<onnadi3> NO PROBLEM
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<rcjsuen> He probably has a problem with my l key problem.
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<rcjsuen> Why speak of the devil here it is back online
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<rcjsuen> maybe for more than thirty seconds this time
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<lemmy> i think this is the most important point of this meeting. we mentors are meant to support you. we're not your boss.
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<onnadi3> That's good to know. Remy, Markus, thanks a lot for all your help
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<onnadi3> BTW, Remy, are you a he or a she?
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<onnadi3> (if you don't mind)
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<rcjsuen> np, -ooking forward to working with you in the coming months/weeks
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<lemmy> although we have a say in terms of payment. ;p
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<rcjsuen> I am a male. You can even get my mug shot here http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=sub/&id=3829
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<lemmy> wait a sec, let me find the brain pic...
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<rcjsuen> Markus and I go waaaaaaaaay back....to IRC ;P
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<lemmy> ah next time, it's stored on the usb drive.
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<onnadi3> :-)
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<onnadi3> Alright y'all...I think I shall mosey of now. I've got to please my current employer :) But I'll put up use cases as soon as I get em
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The final meeting.

August 19 2007

The final meeting. 

<onnadi3>	Good day, lemmy, rcjsuen
<rcjsuen>	onnadi3: Hi
<lemmy>	Hi
<lemmy>	Do we have an agenda?
<onnadi3>	Wwe need to figure out what I should do to round up before the submission date
<onnadi3>	Which is tomorrow, I believe
<lemmy>	Yep, tomorrow is pencils down
<onnadi3>	1. Upload my code to code.google.com
<onnadi3>	2. Make the changes you guys suggested to the documentation
<onnadi3>	No. 3 would be post on my blog about the wonders of Discovery, but you guys haven't commented on the draft I put up
<onnadi3>	Should we just skip it?
<lemmy>	we should stick to the plan and try to get as much pr as possible.
<onnadi3>	okey-doke
<rcjsuen>	yup, I agree
<lemmy>	and the comment is still on my todo list.
<onnadi3>	:-)
<rcjsuen>	onnadi3: I left a one sentence comment like 10 minutes ago
<onnadi3>	Hmm, perhaps bugzilla was still down, then
<rcjsuen>	It was synchronizing this mornign.
<lemmy>	1. Upload my code to code.google.com. Is there anything to arrange for? 
<onnadi3>	Not really. They just want to see what you've done all summer. 
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen: I don't see any need to mention SoC. It was just a vehicle for achieving our ends :-)
<benny`work>	onnadi3, do you know where to upload the stuff? can't find anything about where to do it
<onnadi3>	benny`work: This article explains everything http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/midterm-survey-information-2
<benny`work>	onnadi3, thanks 
<onnadi3>	lemmy, rcjsuen: Anything else you'd like me to do before pencils down?
<rcjsuen>	Don't think so.
<rcjsuen>	maybe generate API docs but I don't know where to host that
<onnadi3>	cool
<kynes>	pombreda, ping
<onnadi3>	Well, I think that's all that's on the agenda
<onnadi3>	IS there any need for us to meet tomorrow?
<rcjsuen>	I don't think so.
<onnadi3>	Alrighty. I'll shoot y'all an e-mail when I've uploaded everything
Aug 19 13:45:58 	onnadi3 is sad that it's all over
<rcjsuen>	onnadi3: Thank you for all your hard work.
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen: Thank *you* for lurking on IRC all the time and answering all questions :-)
<rcjsuen>	Just trying to pay back to the Eclipse community ;)
<rcjsuen>	onnadi3: I see you approached the occasional straggler also, thanks
<onnadi3>	:-)
<onnadi3>	Well, I better finish rounding up my SoC. Markus, Remy, I'll talk to you all later
<lemmy>	ttyl

August 14

Action items

  • E-mail Alex Blewitt to see if SoCers can post articles to EclipseZone about their projects
  • Write an article on Discovery and post it as many places as possible
  • Write documentation for Discovery in docbook format
  • Check out how Mac Eclipse does their JRE discovery
<onnadi3>	I've got meeting items here http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto-conf_meeting_agenda
<lemmy>	ok, lets get started: How to get Discovery into the Eclipse Platform
<lemmy>	what do you mean by that?
<onnadi3>	Well, I would like my work to be used by other projects
<lemmy>	do you mean how to make discovery part of the eclipse sdk?
<onnadi3>	Yeah :-)
<onnadi3>	Is there a process for it?
<lemmy>	that is something we cannot enforce. we rather have to hope for adoption. surely we can promote discovery with blog posts and examples. but at the end of the day, the platform team will decide.
<onnadi3>	okay
<onnadi3>	That kinna leads into the second item
<lemmy>	exactly. ;)
<onnadi3>	zx suggested making a screencast
<rcjsuen_>	yeah, item 1 really goes down to PR and usability
<lemmy>	i've never done a screencast. you're talking something like a flash movie?
<onnadi3>	Yeah...
<onnadi3>	Perhaps an article would suffice. Can anyone post on Eclipsezone?
<lemmy>	at best we would have both. personally I don't like screencasts, i rather like to read normal text.
<onnadi3>	Me too
<lemmy>	we can ask alex blewit
<lemmy>	+t
<lemmy>	he is the "editor in chief".
<onnadi3>	ah, that guy
<onnadi3>	Does he lurk here?
<lemmy>	what about http://www.eclipse.org/articles/ ?
<rcjsuen_>	Nope, he doesn't.
<onnadi3>	Hello Remy :-)
<lemmy>	we should write him an email. maybe in the name of all soc projects.
<onnadi3>	That'd be great
<onnadi3>	I think  Eclipse corner will be easy enough
<onnadi3>	Oops. "hat is, articles that contain time-sensitive material or are likely to expire in a relatively short period of time do not belong on Eclipse Corner"
<rcjsuen_>	Depends what "short" means.
<onnadi3>	True, but isn't beta software the definition of time-sensitive material? :-)
<onnadi3>	Doh. We don't need to belabor this point. We can always post on Planet Eclipse. That's got mad readership
<rcjsuen_>	yeah
<rcjsuen_>	you could just paste some simple code
<rcjsuen_>	then include a zip
<rcjsuen_>	with the full thing
<rcjsuen_>	or whatever
<onnadi3>	So I guess, the bottom line is 1) E-mail Blewitt, and 2) post to Planet Eclipse
<lemmy>	onnadi3: are you going to write an email to alex? otherwise i can do it too.
<onnadi3>	lemmy: Well, if its going to be in the name of all of SoC then you should prob'ly do it. Otherwise I will
<lemmy>	onnadi3: i don't think i'm a better suited represent for soc... but ok, i'll write the email.
<onnadi3>	Oh, you don't know him personally?
<onnadi3>	Sorry, I thought you did
<onnadi3>	I can write it, in that case
<lemmy>	yeah, simply cc soc-dev
<onnadi3>	No problem
<rcjsuen_>	Don't think anyone in here really knows him that well.
<lemmy>	for agenda item #3 i suggest http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Authoring-With-Eclipse/index.html
<lemmy>	although for a basic how to hack the wiki might be fine too.
<onnadi3>	Hmm, if DocBook can publish to HTML, then I'll go with it
<lemmy>	html, pdf, ...
<onnadi3>	good
<lemmy>	docbook doesn't contain the layout, just the structure.
<rcjsuen_>	DITA also does html / pdf, it can also transform to eclipsehelp, though I'm not familiar with the eclipsehelp bit
<lemmy>	for docbook i've done the transformation to html and pdf lately.
<onnadi3>	Alrighty. I'll start off with DocBook and switch to DITA if I hit snags
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<lemmy>	he is hard to miss, isn't he? ;o
<lemmy>	the British accent is very strong
<lemmy>	btw. onnadi3 have you had a look at the mac jre discovery code in 3.4m1?
<rcjsuen_>	I didn't even realize there was a 'Search' button.
<rcjsuen_>	Maybe it just looks for specific path names
<rcjsuen_>	like jre/bin/
<lemmy>	rcjsuen_: the search button on the jre page is older. but it isn't a smart search, just recursive.
<rcjsuen_>	ic
<onnadi3>	From the description, it does exactly what our Discovery does
<onnadi3>	Searches a location for JREs
<lemmy>	but only on mac osx
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<onnadi3>	true :-)
<lemmy>	but it is definitely worth to check how they do it.
<onnadi3>	okay
<rcjsuen_>	I wonder how it works
<rcjsuen_>	maybe like if (Platform.getOS().equals(Platform.MAC)) or whatever the actual method/field names are
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<onnadi3>	Well, that's it for the agenda. I'm still mailing the CDT-dev folks to try and get the Make insertion working
<onnadi3>	I tried the instructions they gave, but nothing happened
<rcjsuen_>	onnadi3: that's nice
<onnadi3>	:-)
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<Ali>	could you please send me a link to the sourceforge project for that? I didnt see it on teh wiki (I may have missed it though)
<onnadi3>	lemmy, rcjsuen_: When do I have to turn in all the code/docs/etc. in so you guys can evaluate?
<rcjsuen_>	Ali: eclipse-incub is the name
<rcjsuen_>	so sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-incub
<lemmy>	as early as possible. continuous evaluation. ;)
<rcjsuen_>	onnadi3: dunno, let's see
<rcjsuen_>	probably next Friday
<rcjsuen_>	http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60325&topic=10729
<onnadi3>	Alright, as soon as possible but before Friday, it is :-)
<onnadi3>	So our final meeting will be on Monday, the 20th, then?
<lemmy>	do we want to have an additional meeting in between?
<Ali>	thanks a lot. Is there any information on what is left to be implemented, what features have ben implemented and such?
<onnadi3>	lemmy: If we do, I'd rather it be between friday and sunday inclusive. That way I'd have stuff for y'all to comment on
<Ali>	I saw a comment at the bottom of the wiki regarding RSE
<Ali>	I am glad to see things are moving forward there :-)
<lemmy>	onnadi3: so we leave the precise date open but target the weekend?
<onnadi3>	Sure thing
<onnadi3>	Are there any other items to discuss today?
<lemmy>	not from my side
<lemmy>	ok, ttytomorrow
<rcjsuen_>	bye
<onnadi3>	alrighty. Bye :-)

   ===August 6 2007===

Markus explained how to use OS-specific fragments. 

Aug 06 11:35:44 <onnadi3>	I still haven't figured out how to incorporate code from OS-specific fragments
Aug 06 11:35:54 <onnadi3>	I haven't worked on that bug since I posted it
Aug 06 11:36:04 <onnadi3>	~196660
Aug 06 11:36:42 <lemmy>	bugzilla is probably still down
Aug 06 11:37:13 <onnadi3>	I can access it just fine. (why didn't KOS-MOS autocomplete?)
Aug 06 11:37:59 <lemmy>	bugzilla was down earlier today. maybe KOS-MOS needs a restart?!
Aug 06 11:38:15 <onnadi3>	strange
Aug 06 11:39:14 <KOS-MOS>	See bug 196660 - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=196660
Aug 06 11:39:20 <onnadi3>	yay!
Aug 06 11:40:21 <onnadi3>	So, have you ever written OS-specific fragments before?
Aug 06 11:40:40 <lemmy>	yep
Aug 06 11:41:13 <onnadi3>	Could you send me the fragment's manifest or any other code so I can figure out how to do it in Discovery?
Aug 06 11:43:37 <lemmy>	onnadi3, swt itself uses fragments.
Aug 06 11:43:46 <lemmy>	which are pretty much platform dependent.
Aug 06 11:44:28 <onnadi3>	I just can't figure out how to make certain code/classes appear on one OS and not in another
Aug 06 11:44:42 <onnadi3>	Perhaps its not too important. We could alway just bundle em all together
Aug 06 11:45:36 <lemmy>	we could
Aug 06 11:46:40 <onnadi3>	okay
Aug 06 11:46:43 <lemmy>	the interfaces of each fragment has to be the same, but the impl might differ. actually i would move the interfaces into the host plug-in and let the fragments implement the interfaces.
Aug 06 11:47:32 <lemmy>	making certain classes appear only on a certain os kinda destroys the fragment purpose anyway.
Aug 06 11:47:39 <onnadi3>	So, we'd publish a JREFinder-win or JREFinder-osx?
Aug 06 11:47:47 <lemmy>	nope
Aug 06 11:48:18 <lemmy>	we publish a jrefinder and a jrefinder-win-fragment and a jrefinder-osx-fragment.
Aug 06 11:48:42 <lemmy>	a customer deployes all three inside osgi and osgi takes care of loading the right fragment.
Aug 06 11:49:01 <lemmy>	osgi checks the platform filter to determine which fragment to load.
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Aug 06 11:50:34 <onnadi3>	Hmm, but then we're back at square one because I don't know how to set the OS filter. I've really tried and tried but there seems to be no articles that explain how to do it
Aug 06 11:50:57 <lemmy>	swt demonstrates it perfectly. Just extract org.eclipse.swt_3.3.0.vNNNN.jar and org.eclipse.swt.os.ws.arch.NNNN.jar
Aug 06 11:51:26 <lemmy>	onnadi3, os filters are explained in the osgi r4 spec. either the compendium or the core.
Aug 06 11:51:37 <onnadi3>	oh
Aug 06 11:52:16 <onnadi3>	I have the core here. Let me check it again
Aug 06 11:52:17 <lemmy>	in our case it is even easier than it is for swt. we don't need to care about arch and ws. we only need to care about os.
Aug 06 11:52:38 <lemmy>	(& (osgi.os=linux) (osgi.arch=x86))
Aug 06 11:53:04 <lemmy>	it's a ldap style "query".
Aug 06 11:56:00 <onnadi3>	Hmm, I found a small section in core about fragments. I think once I look through that and then through the jars (I didn't think of looking there), I'll be able to get this figured out
Aug 06 11:56:44 <lemmy>	in our case the platform filter will probably look just like "(osgi.os=linux)" and "(osgi.os=win32)"...
Aug 06 11:58:03 <onnadi3>	cool
Aug 06 11:59:58 <onnadi3>	Ah, I'm beginning to understand it now. The section on filters is hidden in the "Service Layer" section. That's how come I'd never seen it before

July 30 2007

<lemmy>	So what is on our agenda?
<rcjsuen_>	k we're good
<rcjsuen_>	i 'm outside the lab right now >_>
<onnadi3>	All that was left was to decide what we're to do about CDT i.e. to go ahead and discover whether Make exists on a system or not
<lemmy>	the other stuff is already done?
<onnadi3>	Well...I've implemented it and it compiles
<rcjsuen_>	lol
<onnadi3>	But I'm getting synchronization errors
<onnadi3>	(I dread Concurrency)
<rcjsuen_>	synchronization?
<rcjsuen_>	ah
<onnadi3>	I'm working on it. I hope it won't be a big deal
<onnadi3>	So, Markus, do you still think we should go ahead with just finding make on a system?
<lemmy>	yes, as it will help us to understand what we can generalize and refactor.
<onnadi3>	That's true
<rcjsuen_>	yes
<lemmy>	for example the rule set/heuristics should come from a xml file. I don't want to touch code/recompile if I add a new location.
<onnadi3>	Hmm, but the IFinder.refresh() can't be specified declaratively
<lemmy>	Why not?
<onnadi3>	Well, for instance in JREFinder, refresh() needs to call Platform and then run a loop in order to pick out the the right VMType to do the testing with
<onnadi3>	If you're going to have loops, then its no longer really declarative, is it?
<lemmy>	I don't get why this renders a xml file impossible.
<onnadi3>	Well, it doesn't make it impossible but it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble of avoiding recompilation if we'll end up writing loops and conditionals in XML
<lemmy>	conditional xml? why?
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<onnadi3>	If you can, please look at  JREFinder.isJREDirectory(). It makes use of loops and an if-statement
<lemmy>	btw. i'm still missing the jrefinder.ui plug-in
<onnadi3>	Oh? I committed that
<lemmy>	I'm talking about JREFinder.find() and the potentialJRELocations getting filled.
<lemmy>	This could be done with a simple/non conditional xml.
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<lemmy>	there is no jrefinder.ui plug-in. :o
<onnadi3>	Yeah. But what I'm saying is that IFinder also needs a refresh() method which uses relatively complex constructs that would not be suitable for XML. So we have to decide if we really want discovery plugin writers to have to separate their IFinder code into a Java part and an XML part
<lemmy>	Yes, because the xml changes independently of the refresh and more frequently.
<onnadi3>	Hmm...
<onnadi3>	That's true, too :-)
<onnadi3>	(BTW, I named the ui plugin wrongly and that's why it isn't showing up...yet)
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<onnadi3>	lemmy: should we enforce the XML rule or  just let plugin writers use XML if they see fit?
<lemmy>	I don't see a reason to enforce it.
<onnadi3>	oh OK. So you meant use XML for JREFinder, then?
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<lemmy>	onnadi3, yep
<lemmy>	btw. newer swallow Exceptions.
<lemmy>	try { ... } catch(Exception e) { // do nothing } is really bad.
<lemmy>	JREFinder.readLInes()
<onnadi3>	But the silly BufferedReader throws exceptions when it hits EOF. I couldn't think of another way to test for EOF
<onnadi3>	And the API doesn't have an isEndOfFile() method
<lemmy>	What kind of exception does it throw in that case?
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<onnadi3>	**ahem** an IOException. I'll put that in right away :-)
<rcjsuen>	it shouldn't
<rcjsuen>	you're calling reader.readLine()?
<onnadi3>	Yeah
<rcjsuen>	If it's done
<rcjsuen>	it should return null
<lemmy>	onnadi3, the problem with catching Exception is, that it catches all RuntimeException. And somebody might be interested in certain RuntimeExceptions
<onnadi3>	Ah. Null. I didn't see that...
<onnadi3>	Good call, Markus. Will change it
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<onnadi3>	Alright. Bottom line: we should get JREFinder to use a an external representation (e.g. XML) for storing the potential JRE locations
<onnadi3>	lemmy, rcjsuen: I don't think there's anything else left to discuss; Do y'all?
<rcjsuen>	I don't think so off hand.
<onnadi3>	okey-dokey. I'll do some more bug hunting and update bugzilla once this undiscovery thing is done, then

July 28 2007

  • Weekly meetings moved to 11:30am EDT/7:30pm CST
  • Designed the interface IFinder that all finders will share. See Bug 198121
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen, lemmy: Should we go ahead and get started?
<lemmy>	sure
<rcjsuen>	yes, let's do that
<onnadi3>	I would like us to go over the outstanding bugs so I can get an idea for fixing them
<rcjsuen>	before my teammates come in ;p
<onnadi3>	1. Improve configuration of new Discovery Finders
<onnadi3>	~198121
<KOS-MOS>	See bug 198121 - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=198121
<rcjsuen>	query https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Technology&product=SOC&component=org.eclipse.soc.discovery&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPEN
<rcjsuen>	ED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
<rcjsuen>	or not
<rcjsuen>	i see it got mangled
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen: how'd you get to that page?
<rcjsuen>	what page
<rcjsuen>	the query?
<onnadi3>	yeah
<rcjsuen>	i just constructed one from bugzilla
<onnadi3>	could you give me the parameters? I've tried it unsuccessfully before
<lemmy>	why does find() return null? why not make the method abstract?
<rcjsuen>	I guess this one is better ;) https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=SOC&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
<rcjsuen>	even tho we see the other bugs but anyway
<onnadi3>	lemmy: It returns null because I haven't yet implemented it. I should have noted that
<onnadi3>	Let me give the sequence of calls to Finder
<rcjsuen>	yeah that's what i figured
<rcjsuen>	so i didn't say anything there
<onnadi3>	a. You construct the Finder
<onnadi3>	b. You call find() whenever you want the service discovered
<onnadi3>	c. You call unfind() whenever you want the service undiscovered. There is also a separate thread that monitors the found service and calls unfind() at regular intervals
<onnadi3>	that's it
<lemmy>	"You" is who in the JRE scenario?
<onnadi3>	"You" is the person subclassing Finder e.g. JREFinder, MakeFinder etc.
<lemmy>	That I don't get
<lemmy>	Let me put it this way, who calls this methods during runtime?
<onnadi3>	The JREFinder plugin, for example
<rcjsuen>	In its start method?
<lemmy>	Doesn't the JREFinder implement the Finder?
<rcjsuen>	onnadi3: Query for all discovery bugs https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=SOC&component=org.eclipse.soc.discovery query for open ones https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=SOC&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=org.eclipse.soc.discovery
<lemmy>	s/implement/extend
<rcjsuen>	lemmy: you mean who instantiates it and calls find(), right?
<onnadi3>	That is one way. The other would be to expose the Finder class and have it called whenever the user clicks a button. That is how the JREFinder plugin is built right now actually
<lemmy>	rcjsuen: yep
<onnadi3>	I guess we should use "finder plugin" for the plugin and "JREFinder" for the class. And yes, JREFinder implements Finder
<lemmy>	So the finder plug-in calls find() on JREFinder and passes the result to the ECF discovery API?
<onnadi3>	lemmy: Actually, how I described it was that calling find() would automatically pass the result to the ECF Discovery API
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen: thanks for the links
<rcjsuen>	so what exactly is the Collection for?
<rcjsuen>	Or wait the Colection is what's been found or?
<lemmy>	so find() passes it to the PluginDiscoveryService ds instance?
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen: the Collection is not strictly necessary. I thought it would be nice to have a list of what was found
<rcjsuen>	ah kk
<lemmy>	I would separate it into find() and populate().
<lemmy>	populate() passes the find() result to ds
<onnadi3>	lemmy: Shouldn't we have instead, find(), populate() and findAndPopulate()?
<onnadi3>	So that plug-in writers don't have to do populate(Finder.find())
<rcjsuen>	onnadi3: if we go that route i'd prefer a find() and a find(boolean populate) for populating, I don't like findAndPopulate ;p
<lemmy>	rcjsuen: this look so c-ish
<onnadi3>	okey-dokey :-)
<lemmy>	looks
<rcjsuen>	lemmy: funny, beacuse I don't know C at all
<rcjsuen>	except hello world
<rcjsuen>	and how to make a struct
<rcjsuen>	I think that's about it
<lemmy>	Why have a parameter to change the behavior of a method? make two methods out of it. :)
<onnadi3>	But wouldn't it just be simpler to have the one method that find()s, populate()s and returns the found services?
<rcjsuen>	lemmy: I'm just applyign the same idea from JFace viewers refresh/update and SWT widgets layout methods
<lemmy>	rcjsuen: they are pretty c-ish too. ;o
<rcjsuen>	onnadi3: so by that you mean we have a populate() method that's populating _and_ returns the found services, yesA?
<lemmy>	Anyway, I still don't get the whole picture...
<rcjsuen>	lemmy: having to call dispose() is pretty C-ish ;)
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen: Yeah
<lemmy>	rcjsuen: dispose(*widget) would be c-ish. dispose() is rather c++-ish. .P
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen: that was a yeah regarding your comment about populating and returning
<rcjsuen>	onnadi3: I see.
<rcjsuen>	true, we're not doing free(this)
<onnadi3>	:-)
<lemmy>	We have the PluginDiscoveryService which acts as the general API for consumers like JREInjector. Consumers get discovery results from the PluginDiscoveryService for a given type.
<lemmy>	Also we have Finders which report discovery results to PluginDiscoveryService
<lemmy>	reporting results to PluginDiscoveryService is something in the responsibility of the Finders?
<onnadi3>	lemmy: Yes, since there is no one else for them to report to
<lemmy>	onnadi3: what's with Finders registering themselfs at the PluginDiscoveryService?
<lemmy>	Then the PluginDiscoveryService would call find() on all registered finders
<lemmy>	registering could be done via OSGi services (but that's just the technical side of it).
<onnadi3>	I think its the other way round. The Finder takes a pointer to the PluginDiscoveryService so that it can call registerService()
<lemmy>	are we talking about registering the finder at the plugindiscoveryservice?
<lemmy>	that is the basic necessity, if plugindiscoveryservice should be responsible for calling find()...
<onnadi3>	The reason why we can't have PDS calling find() on all Finders is because you never know when someone will want a service found e.g. in the case of having a GUI button that starts the finding process
<lemmy>	onnadi3: true, but it means also that we cannot issue a global find() on all finders.
<lemmy>	question is, what is the main use case.
<lemmy>	PluginDiscoveryService might offer discover() and discover(IServiceType)
<onnadi3>	what does discover() do? Call find() on all Finders?
<lemmy>	while the first is for issuing a general find() on all finders independent of the type, the latter is for calling find() on specific finders.
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<rcjsuen>	I like that.
<onnadi3>	Doesn't that make what we did with JREFinder impossible then? i.e. have a GUI that initiates the find process. I'm not saying that JREFinder is the best model for structuring finders...
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<lemmy>	onnadi3: The gui would be finder independent.
<onnadi3>	Ah yes
<lemmy>	The current button wouldn't call JREFinder directly anymore, but PluginDiscoveryService.discovery(aJREType)
<rcjsuen>	mmm yes
<lemmy>	If there is no Finder for the given IServiceType registered, nothing would happen.
<lemmy>	onnadi3: calling the specific finder directly also has the disadvantage, that you cannot easily have different finders for the same type.
<lemmy>	imagine a RegistryJREFinder and a FilesystemJREFinder.
<onnadi3>	lemmy: jolly good point
<lemmy>	They both discovery the same IServiceType "JRE"
<lemmy>	Finder would then only implement IDiscoveryResult find() and unfind(IDiscoveryResult) maybe renamed to refresh(IDiscoveryResult)
<lemmy>	But this would leave PluginDiscoveryService responsible for keeping and updating IDiscoveryResults for undiscovery.
<lemmy>	I'm not sure if this is a big disadvantage.
<onnadi3>	It can always delegate to the Finders, can't it?
<lemmy>	All this matches stuff could be handled inside the Finder
<lemmy>	onnadi3: PluginDiscoveryService will delegate the unfind/refresh of the IDiscvoeryResult to the Finder, but it needs to keep track of IDiscoveryResults.
<onnadi3>	I believe it already does that
<lemmy>	perfect :)
<onnadi3>	If we have Finders registering with PluginDiscoveryService through extension points, how will (for instance) the GUI be able to initiate a find()?
<rcjsuen>	isn't that the discovery(IServiceType.JRE) thing?
<lemmy>	The GUI will need to get the PluginDiscoveryService instance and call discover() on it.
<lemmy>	rcjsuen: exactly
<lemmy> The current button wouldn't call JREFinder directly anymore, but PluginDiscoveryService.discovery(aJREType)
<lemmy>	Getting the PluginDiscoveryService reference in the GUI can be done via OSGi.
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<onnadi3>	Aaaaah
<onnadi3>	I see
<onnadi3>	rcjsuen: Could you please tell us the method names you would have preferred for the Finder class?
<rcjsuen>	isMatch -> matches
<lemmy>	I've just submitted a IFinder proposal as a bug comment
<rcjsuen>	dunno about initPotentialMatches(), unfind is pretty weird but dunno if there are better options
<rcjsuen>	lemmy: to 198121?
<lemmy>	yep
<onnadi3>	lemmy: what is the boolean in refresh() supposed to be?
<rcjsuen>	now bugzila worked
<lemmy>	onnadi3: pretty much what unfind() did.
<rcjsuen>	Eh?
<onnadi3>	Sorry, I meant what is the return value of refresh()?
<lemmy>	but IFinder is stateless. I doesn't keep track which IDiscoveryResults have been found before.
<lemmy>	boolean
<lemmy>	valid
<lemmy>	is the given IDiscoveryResult still valid or not
<rcjsuen>	hm
<rcjsuen>	validate(IDR) maybe? ;p
<rcjsuen>	that's kinda like refresh
<rcjsuen>	we're validating it again
<rcjsuen>	or maybe not
<lemmy>	true :)
<rcjsuen>	maybe validate implies a shortop
<rcjsuen>	whereas refresh is a longop?
<rcjsuen>	hm
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<onnadi3>	Shouldn't we also have a method that refreshes all the previously found IDiscoveryResults?
<rcjsuen>	like a validateAll()?
<onnadi3>	Yeah
<rcjsuen>	hm
<lemmy>	onnadi3: IFinder.refreshAll()?
<onnadi3>	And it could return a Collection of still valid IDRs
<lemmy>	but this implies that IFinder knows about previously discovered IDiscoveryResults.
<rcjsuen>	Maybe take a Collection and pass back a Collection of valid ones?
<onnadi3>	Oh!!! I see your point, Markus. PDS is already keeping track of IDRs
<lemmy>	well, this is just convenient API then.boolean validate(IDiscoveryResult) is the minimum.
<lemmy>	Well, one problem arises with IFinder not keeping track of IDiscoveryResults. PDS needs to know by which specific IFinder instance the IDiscoveryResult has been found earlier.
<lemmy>	The RegistryJREFinder probably cannot verify an IDR discovered by the FilesystemJREFinder
<onnadi3>	Akk! This means that PluginDiscoveryService will have to handle polling when it comes to undiscovery
<lemmy>	The IDS instance could store the IFinder by which is has been found.
<lemmy>	polling? PDS certainly is responsible for refreshing IDS and hence needs to ask the various IFinders regularly.
<lemmy>	Btw validate sounds more like verification of an IDS. I tend to refresh
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<lemmy>	verification in terms of "is this IDS really a Sun JRE 1.4"...
<onnadi3>	lemmy: what is IDS?
<rcjsuen>	I'm fine with refresh
<lemmy>	s/IDS/IDR
<onnadi3>	okey-dokey. So  i guesswe're pretty much done with this bug, apart from naming?
<rcjsuen>	yeah
<onnadi3>	Bug no.2: Decide on the CDT tools to provide discovery for
<lemmy>	I got a question, ca we move our meeting permanently to monday afternoon ~17:30pm?
<onnadi3>	Sure, if it works with Remy
<rcjsuen>	What time is that
<lemmy>	11:30
<rcjsuen>	ooo, that collides directly with my weekly meeting
<rcjsuen>	Although that meeting isn't that important
<rcjsuen>	cuz we can bring our notebooks
<rcjsuen>	it's an informal status update
<rcjsuen>	I think it's fine
<lemmy>	perfect, so next meeting is 07/30 11:30am EDT
<onnadi3>	ALrighty
<rcjsuen>	ok
<onnadi3>	So,  Bug no.2: Decide on the CDT tools to provide discovery for
<onnadi3>	~197885
<KOS-MOS>	See bug 197885 - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=197885
<onnadi3>	(I like doing that :-))
<onnadi3>	Shall we be sticking with CDT?
<lemmy>	I'm still +1 for CDT even if it means we only do discovery of make
<rcjsuen>	yeah
<rcjsuen>	i never see people complain about setting up pdt
<rcjsuen>	(well install is hard)
<onnadi3>	So, we need to test if make is in the PATH, and if it is not, find where it is installed on the system 
<lemmy>	well, we wan't to discover all installations ofmake and not just the one in make.
<lemmy>	s/make/path
<onnadi3>	The thing is the CDT interface doesn't really have a drop-down list like JDT does
<onnadi3>	All it has is a text box where you can enter the name of the make command you want to use
<lemmy>	postponed until Monday? The other bug will keep you busy anyway, right?
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<onnadi3>	sure :-)
<onnadi3>	Sweet meeting y'all
<onnadi3>	See ya soon
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