Re: Does Subclipse depend on JDT?

Mark Phippard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.subclipse.user
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On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Sebastian Bauer
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:10:41 +0200, Sebastian Bauer wrote:
> > if I install Subclipse on a plain Eclipse platform installation
> > (Platform Runtime Binary), which previously didn't offer the Java
> > perspective, then, after installing the main Subclipse plugin, the
> > Java
> > perspective is offered. I would not have expected that. Is this a
> > known
> > issue of Subclipse or may another component be the reason? In one of
> > my
> > installations, I like to use Subclipse, but I don't need JDT.
>
> I dug in the source. The Subclipse UI module optionally depends on
> org.eclipse.jdt.ui and org.eclipse.jdt.core, but as there is no control
> whether optional components are used nor not, it is installed. See
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Publisher about this. Especially the
> Note section. Basically, it is recommended to move the features that
> optionally depend on something into an own feature. This makes sense to
> me.
>
>
I wonder if it would make a difference if we removed the dependencies and
instead used "Import-Package" in our manifest?  Does anyone know how that
will change the P2 metadata that is generated?

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Thanks

Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/

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