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

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

AL wrote:
> Sorry...I failed to mentioned that the plugin that depends on jar files 
> from other plugins is OSGI bundled, that is, with a manifest file. 
> Whereas, the plugins that have the jar files are not OSGI bundled, that 
> is, no manifest file.  These plugins are tailored with the plugin.xml in 
> the fashion of Eclipse 3.0.0.

It still shouldn't need the .classpath file.

But ... manifests were introduced in 3.0 along with a migration path. 
You really should update those plugins so runtime information comes from 
the MANIFEST, not the plugin.xml.

Later,
PW