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This bug would be a lot of work and very risky to fix, so this report is intended more as a readme. In PDE we combine plug-ins from the workspace and the target into the plug-in registry. The registry is used for many things including populating selection dialogs in the plug-in editor (adding import packages, required bundles, etc.). If there is a bundle with the same symbolic name in the workspace and the target, we ignore the target bundle. This makes sense the vast majority of the time, and is part of what makes PDE so flexible (as things are added to the workspace and modified the registry, classpath and target runtime get updated). In some cases, however, a user may want to have both the version in the workspace and the one from their target. For example, Mike encountered the following case: 1) Ant 1.6.5 in the target (default target platform) 2) Ant 1.7.0 in the workspace 3) Plug-in in the workspace requiring Ant 1.6.5 The only way to work around the problem was to have both Ant 1.6.5 and Ant 1.7.0 in the workspace.
Update to my example In the workspace: 1. org.apache.ant (1.6.5) re-exported by project a.b.c 2. org.apache.ant (1.7.0) re-exported by project x.y.z In target: 1. org.apache.ant (1.7.1) Problem was that only 1.6.5 and 1.7.0 appeared in my target workspace.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
Please remove the stalebug flag, if this issue is still relevant and can be reproduced on the latest release.
