Community
Participate
Working Groups
Just tested (June 28, 9:30am PST) eclipse-java-europa-win32.zip and the Error log appears to be missing. This is unfortunate since this is a critical pice of the feedback/debugging loop if an error should occur.
I guess you are talking about the Error Log View, but this is something provided by PDE and cannot be included in a pure Java package. And after all: The errors are still logged to the .log file. Note that PDE is included in the large JEE package. PDE is unwanted in this package, but it was necessary to include it to fulfill other dependencies.
Sounds good.
I am not sure whether reliance on Eclipse's .log file is sufficient, because that file is so hard to find for typical users. Also, Mylyn provides error reporting from the Error Log view, which can help gather the input of users who do not typically file bugs. So my thinking is that this is best left open in order to discuss the value of this view to typical Java programmers, or marked as WONTFIX instead of INVALID. If the view is deemed as valuable, I think that we could argue that it would be beneficial for Platform provide a version of it that is not coupled to PDE and that does not reside in the "PDE" category.
*** Bug 195647 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As per the conversation on bug 225470, let's go ahead and do this.
Steffen: I think that we should get this into the RC1.
Based on the WONTFIX resolution of Platform/UI bug 205229, it appears that the only way we can get the Error Log included in the Java build is by packaging it with a Mylyn feature. Moving to Mylyn.
Steffen: I think that you should still consider send a short version message that we discussed to cross-projects. Only you might need to add something like "Even though we don't foresee any chance for destabilization since other packages already ship the view, it is likely too late to do this for Ganymede."
Mylyn dependency on the error log is optional now causing P2 to install the error log when Mylyn is updated. We can reconsider packaging of the error log for the next Ganymede version.
We may now be able to do this with the P2 based package build which should allow us to consume features as well as plug-ins.
Markus, what are the necessary steps to add the org.eclipse.ui.views.log plug-in to the Java package?
The P2 directory now picks up the error log when packages are built.
Fixed in Galileo M7.
Cool.
