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[patch] Patch that adds the text above

Patch IDs doc.txt (text/plain), 2.70 KB, created by Oleg Besedin

on 2006-05-09 11:35:32 EDT

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Creator: Oleg Besedin

Created: 2006-05-09 11:35:32 EDT

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>### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
>#P org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv
>Index: porting/3.2/faq.html
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvsroot/eclipse/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/porting/3.2/faq.html,v
>retrieving revision 1.4
>diff -u -r1.4 faq.html
>--- porting/3.2/faq.html	22 Nov 2005 16:16:20 -0000	1.4
>+++ porting/3.2/faq.html	9 May 2006 15:37:31 -0000
>@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
> <h1>Eclipse 3.2 Plug-in Migration FAQ</h1>
> <ol>
> 	<li><a href="#legacyActionWithNoLabel">Legacy Action With No Label</a></li>
>+	<li><a href="#qualifiedIDs">Usage of IDs with dots (&quot;.&quot;) in Extension Points, Extensions, and Content Types</a></li>
> </ol>
> <h2><a name="legacyActionWithNoLabel">Legacy Action With No Label</a></h2>
> <p>
>@@ -32,6 +33,28 @@
> In the case of actions appearing in the tool bar, sometimes neither a definition
> id nor a label were specified.
> </p>
>+
>+<h2><a name="qualifiedIDs">Usage of IDs with dots (&quot;.&quot;) in Extension Points, Extensions, and Content Types</a></h2>
>+<p> In the past, IDs specified for the extension points, extensions, and content types were expected 
>+to be &quot;simple IDs&quot; with no dots in them (e.g., &quot;myPoint&quot;, not &quot;my.Point&quot;, 
>+not &quot;myPlugin.myPoint&quot;). This rule was specified, but not enforced.</p>
>+<p> In the release 3.2 we added processing of fully-qualified IDs (e.g., &quot;org.eclipse.myPlugin.myPoint&quot;). 
>+However, it turned out that some components had previously used IDs with dots and the change broke 
>+functionality provided by those components. To preserve backward compatibility for IDs of extension points 
>+and extensions, we added special processing based on the version of the XML file:</p>
>+<p><ul>
>+<li>If the XML file has the tag &lt;?eclipse version=&quot;3.0&quot;?&gt;, the runtime
>+functionality remains the same as before (plug-in ID is added to the simple name)</li>
>+<li>If the XML file has the tag &lt;?eclipse version=&quot;3.2&quot;?&gt;, the IDs with dots are treated as fully qualified 
>+names (no plug-in ID is added to the name).</li>
>+</ul></p>
>+<p> Details can be found in the bug <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128866">128866</a>.</p>
>+<p> We recommend switching to the 3.2 format as the usage of IDs with dots was never intended to be supported in 
>+the 3.0 format. (Simply put, there is no guarantee that it works in all cases today or that it will work the same 
>+tomorrow.)</p>
>+<p> This processing of the &lt;?eclipse version&gt; tag applies to IDs of extension points and extensions, but not to 
>+the IDs of content types (see bug <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=139491">139491</a>).</p>
>+
> </body>
> 
> </html>

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