Bug 440156 - Identify 2.0-style plug-ins
Summary: Identify 2.0-style plug-ins
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: PDE
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Build (show other bugs)
Version: 4.4   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: pde-build-inbox CLA
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Reported: 2014-07-22 15:43 EDT by Andy Thomas-Cramer CLA
Modified: 2018-11-13 07:27 EST (History)
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Description Andy Thomas-Cramer CLA 2014-07-22 15:43:37 EDT 
Beginning with Eclipse 4.4, as a result of the resolution of bug 407312, builds will (by default) fail in the presence of Eclipse 2.0-style plug-ins. 

A workaround is to explicitly install the additional plug-in "Eclipse 2.0 Style Plugin Support". 

However, presumably the best long-term solution is to update the 2.0-style plug-ins to use an OSGi bundle manifest.

In the absence of the workaround, the build can include output like this:

  generateFeature:
  [eclipse.generateFeature] The service Plugin converter could not be acquired.
  [eclipse.generateFeature] The service Plugin converter could not be acquired.
  [eclipse.generateFeature] The service Plugin converter could not be acquired.
  ...

In my case, the output includes 22 of those "could not be acquired" lines. 

I'd like to eliminate those errors by updating the 2.0-style plug-ins. But I don't know which ones have been found troublesome. Manual inspection of our long list of plug-ins outside the Eclipse target revealed that all had MANIFEST.MF files with OSGi Bundle-* entries.

Could each of the error messages above identify the plug-in for which the converter would be necessary?
Comment 1 Lars Vogel CLA 2018-11-13 07:27:46 EST 
Mass change for PDE Build bugs tagged with "helpwanted". PDE build is not actively enhanced, hence I close these bugs as wontfix. Please reopen if you want to contribute a patch.