Re: ISVNClientAdapter hidden in 1.1.8

Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Mark Phippard wrote:
> > Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> > > Just out of curiosity, what price would that be?
> > I'd guess disk.  To turn it around to you, I'd ask why did Eclipse 
> > add the feature and adopt it in all of their SDK plugins?
> Beats me. Personally, I'm not much in favor of this new "feature". It 
> would be different if Eclipse provided some functionality to flatten 
> the jars into one but that's not what's happening. As it stands now I 
> think that: what you gain in disk space is lost in memory consumption. 
> You'll need to unpack the stuff at some point anyway right? I also 
> think you loose performance at boot time since you make life harder 
> for the classloaders.
>
> It might look pretty and give you a warm fuzzy feeling when looking in 
> the plugins directory but I don't think there's any gain whatsoever 
> for the end user. And for the developer? Well, as we see here, it 
> simply doesn't work.
In the version we submitted for our Eclipse proposal, each of these JARS 
within a JAR is now its own plugin.  So the issue would go away anyway 
once we get moved to that architecture.

Mark