The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most Eclipse projects, namely:
- GMF Tooling source code release, available as versions tagged "R3_0" in the project's GIT repository.
- GMF Tooling SDK (includes sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable zip and update site).
- GMF Tooling Runtime binary distribution (downloadable zip and update site).
- GMF Tooling Tests (downloadable zip and update site)
Compatibility of Release 3.0
The GMF Tooling Project will be developed in parallel with the following projects. As stated above, each milestone release of the GMF Tooling Project will be compatible with the corresponding milestones for each of these projects, and delivered the appropriate offset.
- Eclipse Platform SDK version 3.8
- Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) version 2.8
- Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) version 3.8
- GMF Notation & Runtime version 1.6
- Eclipse OCL version 3.2
Therefore, the GMF tooling release will be compatible with these versions and will publish binary and source compatibilities with migration guides on subsequent releases.
The Eclipse Platform is designed as the basis for internationalized products. The user interface elements provided by the Eclipse SDK components, including dialogs and error messages, are externalized. The English strings are provided as the default resource bundles. As a result, the GMF Tooling project will provide English strings in its default bundles and be localized to a subset of those locales offered by the Platform. This plan will be updated to indicate which locales will be provided and the time frame for availability.
In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets reasonably current versions of the underlying operating environments.
The Eclipse GMF Tooling project depends upon on the Platform and other projects, which are mostly "pure" Java. The 3.8 release of the Eclipse Platform Project is written and compiled against and targeted to run on Java SE 5 and Java SE 6 VMs. GMF Tooling will target the same Java version(s).
Eclipse Platform SDK 3.8 will be tested and validated on a number of reference platforms. GMF Tooling is expected to be platform-independent, but will be tested and validated against a subset of those listed for the platform.
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