[pde-dev] Incorrect warning about referenced class in antTasks extension

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

A while back I asked questions on the platform newsgroup about some 
extra warnings that started when I installed Eclipse 3.2M4 (see topic 
"org.eclipse.ant.core.antTasks warnings in 3.2M4" dated Dec 18). Later I 
entered a bugzilla on it: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=121691

Wassim Melhem closed this bug as "RESOLVED INVALID" explaining that the 
jar in question can be added to the .classpath of the plugin. I don't 
want to do that and I base this on the following section in the Eclipse 
"Platform Plug-in Developer Guide":

http://help.eclipse.org/help31/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/ant_developing.htm 


The fact that adding the jar file to the .classpath will work at runtime 
is of minor interest. It does not work in a self-hosting scenario and 
that's what I'm in most of the time when I'm developing and that's the 
only time I have an interest in the warnings.

I have several reasons not to modify my .classpath each time I want to 
debug or test. One is of course that I don't want to mess up version 
history when there's no need for it. I really prefer to have my 
ant-tasks in a separate jar file that I maintain separately. Judging 
from the way that several of the eclipse platform plugins are 
constituted, I'm not alone.

And even if I can make it work using a redundant .classpath entry, why 
must I add the jar-file in two places? The plugin.xml entry ought to be 
enough to silence the warnings.

I still consider this a bug. What do you think?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren