[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Why must a plug-in manifest contain at l

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Higginbotham wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for the rapid response. I removed them with no apparent ill 
> affects. Do you know why this became a warning when it was not a warning 
> in Eclipse 3.2? I'm still curious as to why this would be a warning. 
> What problems could it cause.

The warning simply states that if you have no entries in your 
plugin.xml... there's no reason to have the file around. That is, why 
ship something that's not needed. The reason the file is probably around 
is if your plug-in is older and you converted it from say 2.X to 3.X 
style back in the day, you probably have an empty plugin.xml lying 
around. It wasn't until 3.4 where we added a check in PDE for this.

Cheers,

~ Chris