Re: [jdt-core-dev] Concern about removal of unused import preferences

[Marco Qualizza <mqualizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I blinked at this one too for a second, Craig, but quickly focused on
"INVALID".  Not unused, invalid.  :-)

> I usually ignore most of the build noise in eclipse-dev, but happened to see the following yesterday:

> The 2 test failures in jdt.ui.tests are due to the following change in
> jdt.core:

>       Compiler options for controlling the severity of problems for invalid
>       imports or unreachable code got discontinued. Indeed, allowing this
>       kind of problems to be ignored or treated as a warning would violate
>       the language spec. As a consequence,
>       JavaCore#COMPILER_PB_INVALID_IMPORT and
>       JavaCore#COMPILER_PB_UNREACHABLE_CODE got deprecated, further
>       attempts to set these preferences are now ignored and import problems
>       or unreachable code are always reported as errors.

> The jdt.ui tests will have to be changed to not use these options.

> I'm extremely concerned about the removal of this preference from
> Eclipse.  The team I'm working on is in charge of porting a large Java
> application from one platform to another and adding certain feature
> enhancements.  The code that we receive to be ported is definitely not clean
> (in many different ways).  The codebase is filled with unused imports that
> up until now we have just ignored in those projects.  Removing this
> preference will most likely force my development team to be stuck on Eclipse
> 2.1.x for the foreseeable future.  It is unlikely that our vendor will
> respond to requests to clean up these problems and we can't afford to manage
> the merge processing from release to release if we clean these up ourselves
> to make Eclipse happy.

> I apologize for not getting involved in any discussion that occurred
> prior to this change, but I didn't even know it was under consideration. 
> I'm wondering what the reasoning for this removal is and whether or not this
> change is set in stone?

> Thanks,
> Craig

> Craig Setera
> Master Software Engineer, SPSS, Rochester MN
> Sun Certified Java Programmer, Developer and
> Web Component Developer

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