Bug 256885

Summary:	Provide user explanation when a full build occurs but an incremental build was intended
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Philipe Mulet <philippe_mulet>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	amj87.iitr, daniel_megert, markus.kell.r, Olivier_Thomann, srikanth_sankaran
Version:	3.5	Keywords:	polish
Target Milestone:	3.6 M5
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Philipe Mulet

2008-11-28 07:29:47 EST

Build 3.5M3

It may be hard for an end user to relate a (long) full build when an incremental build was requested.

Situations where it happens may include:
- something on a classpath has changed (which one ?)
- the build state format has changed
- it hadn't been built before
- etc...

We should provide an API to surface some explanation that UI could surface (like hover on build progress, or light bulb somewhere...).

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2008-11-28 08:40:53 EST

I guess thist might be hard to do because this can happen from any job over which we don't have control.

Better would be to prevent such situations if possible (see e.g. bug 89301).

Comment 2 Olivier Thomann

2010-01-05 10:30:48 EST

Daniel, ok to close since bug 89301 was closed as WONTFIX ?

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2010-01-05 10:46:03 EST

>Daniel, ok to close since bug 89301 was closed as WONTFIX ?
Agree. It's hard to build a good story/fix for this.

Comment 4 Olivier Thomann

2010-01-05 10:55:29 EST

Closing as WONTFIX.

Comment 5 Ayushman Jain

2010-01-25 06:34:30 EST

verified for 3.6M5

Comment 6 Srikanth Sankaran

2010-01-25 06:47:23 EST

Verified.