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Bug 312086

Summary:	[Product Editor] Plugins remain in *.product even when product based on features
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Kay Kasemir <kasemirk>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	wim.jongman
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description Kay Kasemir

2010-05-07 11:35:47 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100218-1602

I ran into this problem when switching to P2, and the generated config.ini failed to use org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.

The problem seemed to be in the product file, which I had changed from "based on: plugins" to "... features", but the product file still listed the old plugins.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new product configuration, for example based on org.eclipse.platform.ide
2. In Overview, select "The product configuration is based on: plug-ins"
3. Under Dependencies, add some plugins
4. Save
5. Re-open *.product file, now select "The product configuration is based on: features"
6. Dependencies tab is empty. Maybe add a feature or not, doesn't matter
7. Save
8. Open *.product in text editor: It still lists the original <plugins> section

.. and that plugins list seems to cause P2 to create a config.ini with osgi.bundles=...long list of plugins...

Workaround:
After manually removing the <plugins> section from the *.product in a text editor, so that it only contains features, P2 generates a proper config.ini and org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator setup.

Unclear if this also points to a bug in P2, but the product editor is certainly misleading because it no longer displays the plugins when using feature-based configuration, even though they are still included in the *.product file.

Comment 1 Wim Jongman

2018-12-27 08:11:03 EST

This is intentional. It forgives the user to click on the feature/plugin toggle without losing the entire list of selected plugins.


> .. and that plugins list seems to cause P2 to create a config.ini with
> osgi.bundles=...long list of plugins...

I have never seen this happen. Are you sure this is the case? If so, please re-open and re-target this bug.