Bug 256885 - Provide user explanation when a full build occurs but an incremental build was intended
Summary: Provide user explanation when a full build occurs but an incremental build wa...
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.6 M5   Edit
Assignee: Olivier Thomann CLA
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Keywords: polish
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Reported: 2008-11-28 07:29 EST by Philipe Mulet CLA
Modified: 2010-01-25 06:47 EST (History)
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Description Philipe Mulet CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2010-01-05 10:30:48 EST 
Daniel, ok to close since bug 89301 was closed as WONTFIX ?
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 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 CLA 2010-01-05 10:55:29 EST 
Closing as WONTFIX.
Comment 5 Ayushman Jain CLA 2010-01-25 06:34:30 EST 
verified for 3.6M5
Comment 6 Srikanth Sankaran CLA 2010-01-25 06:47:23 EST 
Verified.