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Bug 318594

Summary:	Patch Fragment ignored when referenced from Workspace
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Sascha Becher <becher-sascha>
Component:	Launcher	Assignee:	PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	ankur_sharma, curtis.windatt.public, darin.eclipse, s.schnabl
Version:	3.6	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Sascha Becher

2010-07-01 08:52:23 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

This worked fine with Eclipse 3.5.2:
Class A from a plugin was replaced from it's equivalent in a patch fragment.
Under 'Run configurations' I had both the plugin and the patch fragment selected 
under 'Workspace' not 'Patch fragment' in order not to export the plugin every time I made a change to it.

This feature seems to be broken in Eclipse 3.6 as only Class A gets loaded and the patch fragment is ignored. When selecting the plugin and the patch fragment under 'Target platform', the replacement works as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a plugin and a patch fragment
2. create class A in the plugin that can be replaced
3. create class A in the patch fragment that replaces class A from the plugin
4. in 'Run configurations' select both under 'Workspace', not 'Target platform'

Comment 1 Sascha Becher

2011-01-20 07:18:04 EST

This bug is still not fixed in Eclipse 3.6.1 and prevents fluent development.

Comment 2 Sascha Becher

2011-07-05 09:24:11 EDT

This bug persists also in Eclipse 3.7 and prevents fluent development!

Comment 3 Sascha Becher

2011-08-12 12:32:11 EDT

Equinox seems to cause this.

Comment 4 Sascha Becher

2011-08-30 08:13:04 EDT

I have found the cause for the behaviour described before:
My RCP application still used the Target Platform 3.5.2, while I used
Eclipse 3.6.2 and then 3.7
Updating to the matching Target Platform for Eclipse, all works fine now.

I'm sorry for polluting the bugtracker with this!