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| Summary: | Regression: category.xml processing fails when "name" contains special chars | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] PDE | Reporter: | Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 3.7 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
| Whiteboard: | stalebug | ||
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Build ID: 3.7m4 Up until Eclipse 3.7m3, I used a category.xml file where the category "name" aka "id" looked like this: <feature url="features/org.eclipse.rse.useractions_1.1.300.qualifier.jar" id="org.eclipse.rse.useractions" version="1.1.300.qualifier"> <category name="TM and RSE Main Features"/> </feature> <feature url="features/org.eclipse.rse.scp_0.1.0.qualifier.jar" id="org.eclipse.rse.scp" version="0.1.0.qualifier"> <category name="TM and RSE Optional Add-Ons"/> </feature> This worked fine both with the category.xml editor in the UI, and with the CategoryPublisher commandline app. Turned out that since Eclipse 3.7m4, this format is not recognized any more. The CategoryPublisher commandline app terminates with a failure message claiming it cannot read the category.xml "update site file". The category.xml editor remains completely empty when dbl clicking the old file. I had to re-create my file from scratch using the UI editor, coming up with this syntax that works: <feature url="features/org.eclipse.rse.useractions_1.1.300.qualifier.jar" id="org.eclipse.rse.useractions" version="1.1.300.qualifier"> <category name="tm_33_main"/> </feature> <feature url="features/org.eclipse.rse.examples_3.1.200.qualifier.jar" id="org.eclipse.rse.examples" version="3.1.200.qualifier"> <category name="tm_33_optional"/> </feature> I think that addressing this issue might be important, since I seem to remember that in the past there was some confusion about what the "name" of a category was versus the "label". I think that with old update manager, maybe the "name" turned up in the UI instead of the label, and that's why my old build had those funny names with the special chars.