[news.eclipse.platform] Re: should .classpath be bundled with deployable

[Paul News <paulnews@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, when it's deployed it is the manifest that determines who can 
see what.

a plugin declares it's internal classpath and what packages it exports. 
 Another plugin just needs to say it depends on the first plugin.

If you have multiple jars in a plugin, the correct order of operations 
is to update the manifest so the Bundle-Classpath is correct within that 
plugin, and then go to the project popup men>PDE Tools and update 
classpath.  The .classpath is used for compiling and running within eclipse.

Later,
PW