[news.eclipse.tools] Re: 2.0.1 feature change

["Harald Niesche" <harald@xxxxxxxx>]

"Bob Foster" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> (But a little devil sitting on my shoulder is whispering: Aren't those
boxes
> unchecked by default? Isn't this some kind of bug?)

Well, I guess. When I created my plugin project with the funky wizard, it
asked about those boxes (I don't really remember the question). Then I
committed the project to CVS and retrieved it on the other machine --
nothing worked. At that point I created a new plugin project using the
wizard, noticed the question and discovered the "Target Platform" preference
page.

It's really kind of sneaky that the wizard turns all those checkboxes on
with only one question and when you get the project from CVS there is no
hint what might be wrong...

> So there wasn't any feature change, just a feature previously hidden. But,
> of course, it is still a feature broken. A path of the form:
>
> _ORG_ECLIPSE_PLATFORM_SOURCE/org.eclipse.ui_2.0.0/workbenchsrc.zip
>
> is no more resilient to updates than the previous install-relative file
> path. It's still got those pesky version numbers in it. When the
definition
> of _ORG_ECLIPSE_PLATFORM_SOURCE changes, this path will stop working.

This just confirms the view that in a PDE project there should be no
.classpath, since it is really derived from the plugin.xml.


Harald