Re: [platform-dev] Compatibility issues when developing plug-ins

[Michael Wenger <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxx>]

Randy Hudson schrieb:
>   When is it possible to develop
> plug-ins
> for a version of Eclipse other than the one being used for development?
>  For example, I am using Eclipse 3.0 M4 and targeting Eclipse 3.0
> M6.  Project "foo" compiles clean when using M4, but if
> I use M6 as my development environment, I get unresolved imports for
> "org.eclipse.core.*".
>  Obviously this is coming from the new OSGi runtime changes.
>   
>   
>   Should the PDE have some kind of
> check
> to recognize when it is dealing with a version of Eclipse it doesn't
> know
> how to handle?
>   
>   
>   -Randy
Check the PDE guide. What you are searching for is "Binary project
self-hosting":
http://help.eclipse.org/help21/topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/pde_selfhosting_binary.htm

Michael