[eclipse-dev] optionally requiring org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibilit

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In looking through the current set of
plugin.xml files we noticed that a number of people are using
         
<import plugin="org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility" optional="true"
/> 
in their <requires> list.

While this works, I suspect that in
most cases it is actually inaccurate.  Chances are most plugins currently
still really require the compatibility plugin and plain would not work
if it was not present. For those that don't, they don't need to mention
org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility at all.

It is likely that during the transition
to the new runtime you were asked to add this line.  So, thank you
very much for following the request, but you can now remove the optional="true"
part or, if you really don't need the compatibility stuff, remove the <import>
all together.

Jeff

p.s., here is partial list of the plugins
that use optional="true"
org.eclipse.text
org.eclipse.search
org.eclipse.jdt.ui
org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor
org.eclipse.ui.editors
org.eclipse.pde.junit.runtime
org.eclipse.jdt.junit.runtime
org.eclipse.core.expressions
org.eclipse.core.filebuffers
org.eclipse.compare
org.eclipse.jface.text
org.eclipse.jdt.junit