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When you expand the External Plug-ins references for a bundle, the JAR files are listed in a seemingly random order. Perhaps its the order of the bundles that they are declared in. It would be helpful to the user if the JARs were listed alphabetically, independant of their bundles.
I believe they are already sorted by the ID of their originating plug-in, no?
Yes that's what it looks like but since there is no correlation between the name of the JAR and its bundle name, it makes it difficult to find JARs for non-JARd bundles.
An enhancement request like this one would be given a WONTFIX resolution status in the Platform/Resources inbox so fast... ;)
Yes but you PDE folk are infinitely more considerate than those Platform guys. ;-)
Fixed. One ridiculous request down :)
Thanks Wassim. I know how you hate it when I enter these fluff bug reports. :-)
Sorting by JAR names doesn't really make sense. People know about bundles. Should be sorted by bundle name.
Wouldn't it make more sense to sort by install path??
sometimes I wish the runtime team would just go away :)
Re comment #8 - DJ made me write that.
I know. DJ is dead to me!!! This threat used to work, but has lost its effect over the years...
closing minus one friendship ;)
Wait! Comment 7 was not that ridiculous! The problem with the original case was not that they were sorted wrong but that the sorting was not obvious to people. Sorting by bundle does seem to be the natural way (as indicated by the every perceptive PDE team choosing that approach in the first place ;-) So perhaps what is needed is sort by bundle name and show the user the bundle name.
Prior to doing this enhancement, WE WERE SORTING BY BUNDLE SYMBOLIC NAME!!!
....which is kind of silly if you aren't showing the bundle symbolic names in the list. ;-)
the label of the jar comes from JDT. Let's move the bug there. I am sure they will be very very accomodating to this very important request.
