[eclipse-dev] Support for : and \ characters in workspace paths

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have released some changes to IPath
and IWorkspace to allow resources to be created on non-Windows platforms
containing the colon (':') and backslash ('\') characters in their names.
 For complete details on the proposal, see:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/path_changes.html

I have put together a migration guide
that describes what needs to be done for those who want to support such
paths in their plugins:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/path_migration.html

Feel free to ask questions and report
migration issues not covered in the guide to the platform-core-dev mailing
list.