Bug 373116 - Generator preferences invisible when there's duplicate names/IDs
Summary: Generator preferences invisible when there's duplicate names/IDs
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: EDT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
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Reported: 2012-03-02 11:39 EST by Justin Spadea CLA
Modified: 2017-02-23 14:07 EST (History)
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Description Justin Spadea CLA 2012-03-02 11:39:44 EST
This pertains to the compiler preference and property pages. If there are two generators contributed via the org.eclipse.edt.ide.core.generators extension point, and they either have the same name or same ID, we pop up a warning and then hide the generator portion of the UI.

1. We should not hide this UI when this happens. It's a warning, not an error. Let them configure stuff, while leaving the warning at the top.

2. If we display the generator ID then it's okay to have conflicting names. This could be a new column in the table, a tooltip, whatever we decide looks best. Duplicate IDs though *is* a problem and we should only show one of them (first one in the list). They can configure it still, but it's at their own risk that the wrong generator might get used.

We should defer this post-0.8 since we don't currently have any generator conflicts. This will be more an issue as third parties start writing their own generators.
Comment 1 Matt Heitz CLA 2013-01-03 14:21:54 EST
Setting the Target Milestone correctly for all bugs (set to Future in this case).