Equinox Minutes - 20080304

Attendees

• Oleg Besedin
• Matt Flaherty
• DJ Houghton
• Simon Kaegi
• Jeff McAffer
• Tim Mok
• Pascal Rapicault
• Tom Watson

Discussion Topics

EclipseCon

• Tom is doing a demo at EclipseCon and is doing an example with framework extensions and was wondering if he should use M5 or if he can use a p2-ized build. The thought is that it might just work. There is currently an open p2 bug for this.

p2 integration

• we will probably need a rebuild (before the build is already done :-)
• today's build should contain a p2-ized SDK
• running off the bundles.info file and not the update.configurator discovery mechanism
• can't just drop bundles into your plug-ins directory and have them installed
• we will have a drop-ins folder where people can put bundles and have them discovered and installed
• if people are replacing bundles, then they will have to update their bundles.info file
• we can look at sorting the file by bundle id to make it easier

Security

• discussions around security integration into p2
• trust
• where do we put the bundles when it graduates? Platform? RCP?
• contain a UI component so prob Platform
• discussion around who will be adopting the new support
• Oleg is working with the CVS team

x-internal

• at one point we had talked about having all bundles in the RCP being able to run in strict mode
• Tom has found a case where a bundle outside the Platform has an extension which depends on an internal class
• this doesn't work in strict mode
• we need to re-visit how far up we want to enforce the right headers (friends, internal, etc)
• we will add it to the discussion topics for the arch call tomorrow