[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Remove obsolete plugins in new feature versi

["Daniel Pech" <daniel-p@xxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

that's exactelly the problem. We changed some functionallity and so one  
plugin is obsolete now. But the extensions made in this plugin are still  
loaded and reference invalid menu ids. Consequently, our customer gets a  
bunch of error messages to see.

Dan


On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:24:30 +0200, Sebastian Fuchs  
<sf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Blewitt schrieb:
> > Why should it be disabled? What if someone else is using that plugin,  
> > or it's used in a different feature? In any case, the platform will  
> > remember what the started/stopped state of the bundles are between  
> > restarts.
>
> I can imagine that there are some use cases in RCP applications where  
> such a behaviuor is needed.
>
> Making sure that the old plugins are removed is the main reason for us  
> to ship our product per installer only.
>
> It would be nice to have this feature in the Update Manager. Maybe  
> sometimes installers become obsolete.
>
> Sebastian