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Bug 101914

Summary:	[IDE] Prevent circular project references
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	John Ruud <john.ruud>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description John Ruud

2005-06-27 15:08:05 EDT

It is currently possible to add a project X to another project Y's 'Project 
References' properties page, even if project Y has previously been added to 
X's. This (circular project references) is causing problems for some builders 
etc., so it would be helpful if 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.dialogs.ProjectReferencePage would prevent this 
from happening.

Comment 1 Susan McCourt

2009-07-15 12:06:40 EDT

"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2013-01-18 10:23:01 EST

I don't think it is appropriate to outright prevent circular references. Some builders such as the Eclipse Java builder, supports and handles circular references. Although most people would discourage it, if you disallowed it you would prevent certain people from being able to work on their projects in Eclipse. The dialog could issue a warning when you add circularities though.

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2020-06-21 17:02:19 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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