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Thank you!
John Arthorne/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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03/22/2004 04:01 PM
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Plug-in developers in the 3.0 stream will have noticed that changing self
hosting styles (between external projects and binary or source projects),
causes outgoing changes to the .project files of downstream plugins in
your workspace. This is a consequence of the switch in PDE to using
dynamic classpath variables when updating plugin classpaths. To make a
long story short, it was necessary to update project references in the
.project file to ensure the workspace build order reflected any changes to
project classpaths.
As of today's integration build (I20040322), and in 3.0 M8, project
references computed via dynamic classpath variable are no longer treated
as "hard" project references and are no longer stored in the .project
file. The net result is that you should see no further changes to your
.project files when you change self-hosting styles, or when you add and
remove prerequisite plug-ins when self-hosting. In fact, you can now
remove all project references from your plug-in projects if self-hosting
in 3.0 M8 or greater. Keep in mind that older builds of Eclipse will still
require correct project references in order to compute the workspace build
order. You should only remove project references from your projects if
everyone on your team is self-hosting with 3.0 M8 or greater.
To summarize, NO ACTION IS REQUIRED by you. If everyone on your team is
self-hosting on 3.0 M8 or greater you can feel free to remove all project
references from your plugin projects, as they are no longer needed. If you
want to get rid of any outgoing changes on .project files in your
workspace right now, you can safely select them in the synchronize view
and do an "Override and Update".
For all the gory details, see:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=46668
