[jira] Commented: (TUSCANY-3762) Tuscany SCA Eclipse plugin doesn't install correctly

["Simon Nash (JIRA)" <de...@tuscany.apache.org>]

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Simon Nash commented on TUSCANY-3762:
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Some work has been done on a replacement update site / feature / plug-in as described in TUSCANY-2563.  This has some refactoring improvements and is compatible with the current Eclipse software installer.  The code for this is in the 1.x trunk under "tools/eclipse34" but it isn't in the build and has never been released, and it's not clear what state it's in.

For 1.6.1 I think it's too much work and too risky to try to get the "tools/eclipse34" version working and tested and switch over to using it.  Instead I have made some changes to the current "tools/eclipse" version of the feature and plug-in that resolve the specific problems described in this JIRA.

For a future release we should re-evaluate whether to continue with "tools/eclipse" or change to using "tools/eclipse34".

> Tuscany SCA Eclipse plugin doesn't install correctly
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TUSCANY-3762
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-3762
>             Project: Tuscany
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Java SCA Tools
>    Affects Versions: Java-SCA-1.6
>            Reporter: Simon Nash
>            Assignee: Simon Nash
>             Fix For: Java-SCA-1.6.1
>
>
> When installing the Tuscany SCA Eclipse feature and plugin from the Eclipse update site, there are a number of problems as follows:
> 1. The Tuscany SCA Eclipse feature installation isn't compatible with the current Eclipse software installation and update mechanism in Eclipse 3.4 and above. This forces a switch to the older Update Manager which requires the update site information to be re-entered.
> 2. After the installation completes, the Eclipse installed software window doesn't have an entry for Tuscany in the Installed Software or Features tabs. Tuscany is shown only in the Plug-ins tab.
> 3. It isn't possible to uninstall the Tuscany SCA Eclipse feature.  The Tuscany feature and plugin directories can be deleted from Eclipse manually but this doesn't remove the Tuscany plug-in from the list of installed plug-ins.
> 4. The version number of the Tuscany SCA Eclipse feature and plug-in doesn't conform to Eclipse format conventions which require a timestamp following the release number.
> 5. It's not possible to install and test the Tuscany SCA Eclipse feature when it's built from the trunk or from a release branch because Eclipse can't handle n.n.n-SNAPSHOT as a version number.
> 6. The Tuscany SCA Eclipse feature and plug-in don't conform to Eclipse conventions for displaying copyright and license information when they are installed.

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