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Nodeclipse is quite an eclectic collection of plug-ins. Aside from what WTP already offers, what more do we need to properly support node.js development.

I have purposefully left Mylyn out of the product for now. I am having trouble finding people who use it. And I fear it complicates the UX for those who don't.

But if people feel strongly about it we should revisit this.

Hi, this is an interesting project, it would be good to list explicitly what is included what is not and what is the scope of the project. I was parsing pom and feature.xmls to know what is in and what isn't.

The EPP packages moved the feature set to the produce and marked them as installMode=root. That makes them all independent features from the product. That's not quite what I wanted. Features should be upgradeable without having to rebuild the product. But you should be able to add and remove features from the product and have that reflected in an upgrade.

What happens if you make a master feature and mark the component features as dependencies (as opposed to included features). You get to specify a range. Would that allow for upgrades?

The main requirement here is to allow component features to be upgradeable as projects release them without having to rebuild the product. This ensure speed of getting fixes, but also reduces the maintenance overhead of the product.

Since we have non-Eclipse Foundation components in Ultimate, we can not deliver it from there. Bintray offers a great location for open efforts like this to redistribute their wares. But I don't want to overwhelm them.

All the components of Ultimate come from p2 repos around the internet. I'd like to be able to have a composite repo that points to those and a master p2 repo that brings them together.

This somewhat also brings up the installMode=root issue since there's actually no p2 way to bring the component features together. We would need a master feature.

Anyway, also need to figure out how to configure Maven/Tycho to build what we want.

Missing org.eclipse.pde.api.tools.ee.feature to provide execution environments for PDE builds.