Re: [eclipse-dev] Extension Point Schema Changes - ACTION REQUIRED/REQUI

[Wassim Melhem <wassimm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andre,

Of the plug-ins listed, only org.eclipse.compare contributes extension
points and is therefore the only plug-in whose schemas need to be updated.
I just browsed through the 5 schemas in said plug-in, and you only have to
make one change in each one of them.
Just mark the attribute 'name' of the <extension> element translatable and
you're done.

Thanks,
Wassim.



                                                                           
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I've checked the following ZRH plugins but couldn't find anything to
update:

org.eclipse.compare
org.eclipse.compare.examples
org.eclipse.compare.examples.xml
org.eclipse.compare.tests
org.eclipse.test.performance
org.eclipse.test.performance.win32
org.eclipse.core.resources.macosx
org.eclipse.ui.carbon
org.eclipse.jdt.launching.macosx

--andre


>The PDE team would like to kindly ask all teams, from Beaverton to
>Confederation Helvetica, to revisit their extension point schemas and make
>use of the new important properties that will be available as of today's
>I-build.
>
>Exempt from this effort is the SWT team as they do not contribute
extension
>points to the SDK.
>
>Untranslated attributes in the plugin.xml files are difficult to spot,
>given the size of these files and the inability of the chkpii tools to
zero
>in on these attributes accurately.
>
>To address this issue, PDE has introduced new support in the extension
>point schemas to mark attributes and non-empty elements as 'translatable'.
>For all translatable attributes and elements, PDE will do a
>two-verification step when validating the plugin.xml file:
>1. It will ensure that the value starts with %
>2. It will ensure that the key in the plugin.xml actually exists in the
>plugin.properties files of the plug-in.
>
>For attributes that are not translatable, eg. ones that denote an id,
etc,,
>do NOTHING as the default is FALSE.
>Much like in the case of the JDT compiler settings, the flag for 'usage of
>non-externalized strings' will be set to IGNORE by default.
>This new 'translatable' property is vital as it will also be used to guide
>PDE when we provide an 'externalize strings' action for plugin.xml files
in
>the future.
>
>
>The other property that was also added is a 'Deprecated' property used to
>mark attributes/elements that have become deprecated over time.  There are
>not too many of those in the SDK.
>I think only the Platform/UI team has a few of these.  Please mark these
>attributes/elements appropriately in the schemas.
>
>Note that while the changes are TRIVIAL, every schema in the SDK is
>affected and has to be visited since at minimum, the 'name' attribute of
>the top-level <extension> element will have to be marked as
'translatable'.
>
>The Platform/UI and the Debug/Ant teams will be the busiest as together
>they contribute > 50% of the world's extension points (and > 60% of the
>world's cocoa, I think :-)
>
>Please plan on making these changes at your earliest convenience.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Wassim.
>
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