[platform-ui-dev] Refactoring to take place on 'org.eclipse.ui.menus' Ex

[Eric Moffatt <emoffatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Platform UI team is in the process
of refactoring the (crippled) 'org.eclipse.ui.menus' extension point to
bring it into alignment with the updated 'common menu additions' story
. This extension point had already been declared as being inoperative except
for the subset used to declare 'trim' additions. The intention is to -remove-
all other elements and fields except for the trim addition subset (which
includes only the 'widget' and 'group' elements and their contained sub-elements).
If anybody thinks that this will cause them issues please reply with your
concerns.

Also, the implementation of the trim
contribution handling will be changing at the same time and is currently
capable of handling the 'generic' style trim addition (as defined in the
schema's example section). Eclipse users who are contributing trim are
welcome to respond with their trim addition XML (obfuscate as desired,
I'm only interested in the format) so I can ensure that we cover all existing
scenarios.

Barring any responses indicating serious
issues the new schema / parsing will appear in the M4 build...

Onwards,
Eric