[news.eclipse.platform] Re: No solution found because the problem in /tm

[John J Barton <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> On 12/11/2008 2:54 PM, John J Barton wrote:
...
> > Or is the simple answer that I have to build my plugin with exactly the
> > version of eclipse that I want users to install?
>
> Well, for one thing you should ALWAYS be using a target platform, not 
> building against the Eclipse that you are running as your IDE. It really 
> irritates me that the default setup for the PDE is to use the running 
> Eclipse as the target platform, because it can easily lead newbie plugin 
> developers down a path with pitfalls. I suspect that is what has 
> happened to you.
> Here is one article explaining why: 
> http://rcpquickstart.com/2008/04/21/why-create-a-custom-target-platform/
> Here's the relevant Help page: 
> http://help.eclipse.org/stable/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tools/preference_pages/target_platform.htm 

Thanks. I can see that it helps a lot if I want to use my 3.4 eclipse to 
build a plugin for 3.3. But as we know, I should be able to build a 
plugin with 3.4.1 that runs on 3.4.0.  If I can figure out how to get it 
to install.

Does the target platform setting alter the MANIFEST.MF values?

John.