[udig-devel] Re: [udig-users] uDig 1.1 RC14 available FOR TESTING

[andrea antonello]

Standing ovation for you Jesse!

> So I've been continuing to work on the SDK.  The goal is to have a
> single SDK for all platforms and which can be used as the target
> platform for but developement and release of custom applications.
>
> Jody is testing one of the latest attempts as we speak.  I'm also
> working on making a tutorial for setting up... wait for it...
> Automated builds based on uDig :).

Brrr... sounds too beautyfull to be real :)

Andrea



>
> Jesse
>
> Le 9-Feb-08 à 12:53 AM, Dave S-B a écrit :
>
>
> > I think that, if I'm developing plugins to be deployed in the uDig
> > platform, then the easiest way of working is with a full uDig
> > platform as my target (so, an SDK with all the platform plugins). As
> > you say, managing plugin versions is an issue, so it's easier to
> > work with a full target and know that the plugin you're writing will
> > have all the right uDig dependencies when it gets deployed.
> >
> > If  I'm developing an RCP application, then I'd prefer to just add
> > uDig plugins to my own chosen base platform and have the
> > responsibility of making sure that the versions of plugins which
> > uDig is dependant on are compatible. That way I should be able to
> > choose to use newer platform plugin versions, so long as they are
> > backwards-compatible with the ones uDig needs.
> >
> > I expect you're right about beginning users - they would have to
> > have a compatible base platform before adding the uDig plugins. With
> > the existing SDK, I can do both of the options above by adding in
> > the uDig SDK to my base RCP platform then selectively checking/un-
> > checking platform plugins in either the uDig SDK or the RCP
> > platform. It's not fun to do, but you only have to do it once! I'm
> > not sure there's any way round it though...
> >
> > andrea antonello wrote:
> >> I don't think it is a great idea to have an sdk to be added to your
> >> target platform, I prefer the version that IS the target platform. If
> >> the versions are not exactly in sync, there are huge maintenance
> >> nightmares. This is the reason I stopped exporting from the svn
> >> version of udig. I was using my own eclipse version and keeping it
> >> always uptodate and there has been lots of big spaghetti incidents.
> >> Beginning users will experience troubles.
> >>
> >> I think the sdk should have a ruling version of the used libraries.
> >> We
> >> of JGrass already have some extra eclipse plugins we need because of
> >> the console stuff and I have to be very carefull in keeping
> >> everything
> >> in sync.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >> Ciao
> >> Andrea
> >>
>
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