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Bug 350177

Summary: Feature editor warns that "plug-in reference 'xyz' cannot be resolved"
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Eric Jain <eric.jain>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: curtis.windatt.public, daoenpan
Version: 3.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Eric Jain CLA 2011-06-23 14:13:11 EDT
Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

In a feature.xml, I have this:

   <plugin
         id="org.eclipse.equinox.security.macosx"
         os="macosx"
         ws="cocoa"
         arch="x86_64"
         download-size="0"
         install-size="0"
         version="0.0.0"
         fragment="true"
         unpack="false"/>

Sure, this plugin can't be resolved when I'm running win32 (but it resolves fine on macosx). But that's expected, so why show a warning?


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Curtis Windatt CLA 2011-06-27 15:50:40 EDT
I could see arguments for both sides.  You are working with a feature in your workspace, but it can't find the plug-in referenced.  This could be because you are working with a different target or because you really are missing something you need.

A warning seems like a fair compromise, but is this something that you encounter all the time and really needs to change for you?  Note that you can change the severity of unresolved references on the PDE > Compilers preference page.
Comment 2 Eric Jain CLA 2011-06-27 17:34:19 EDT
Could disable the warning as suggested, but then I would no longer get a warning if there was a plugin that is supposed to be available in the current environment, but isn't...
Comment 3 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-05-17 05:01:23 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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. 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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Comment 4 Eclipse Genie CLA 2023-05-08 12:11:28 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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. 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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