Equinox Minutes - 20080408

Attendees

• Andrew Niefer
• DJ Houghton
• Eric Li
• Matt Flaherty
• Mcq
• Oleg Besedin
• Pascal Rapicault
• Simon Kaegi
• Tim Mok
• Tom Watson

Minutes

Jetty5 vs Jetty6

• Jetty5 is currently shipped in the SDK
• Jetty5 relies on old APIs
• people are installing new APIs
• suddenly help doesn't work
• happens, for instance, with WTP
• could we use version ranges?
• how much work is to upgrade to Jetty6?
• too much
• short term solution is to hack Jetty5 to say it runs on the new APIs
• Simon to contact the Jetty folks to see if this is a reasonable solution
• what SWT does (for Mac for instance) is they say they only run on the newest versions

OSGi

• Tom doing OSGi specification work
• there are some great discussions happening on the e4 mailing list
• we should be having similar discussions surrounding OSGi
• perhaps the meeting next week should be blue sky ideas around the runtime?

eclipse.home

• there is discussion around a new Location variable
• p2 would like to know the location to initialize the dropins
• currently it is treated as a sibling of the configuration folder
• this can't be the story going forward
• we should have a page which lists all our locations and what they mean

Security

• Eric and Tim have been working with Scott to get SSH working within ECF
• things are looking good and we believe we have a story for this

Password Command-Line Arg

• in M6 we introduced eclipse.password command-line arg which takes a password
• would like to change it to take a file which contains the password
• this is considered an API change so we need to ask permission to change it
• is this arg a URL or file location? need to explicitly spec this
• a consistent story for URLs and Files might be a good e4 topic