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Bug 365232

Summary: Cannot create an external builder with same name accross projects
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Martin Larente <martin.larente>
Component: AntAssignee: Platform-Ant-Inbox <platform-ant-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: Michael_Rennie, remy.suen
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description Martin Larente CLA 2011-11-30 13:42:36 EST 
Build Identifier: M20110909-1335

It seems that Eclipse is unable to create an external builder that has the same name of another project's external builder, even though the corresponding launch configuration is saved in the project folder.

If I manually rename the launch configuration and edit the .project file accordingly, everything works and the builder is still executed as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take any project and create an external builder for it (ant or program, it doesn't matter). Give it any name.
2. In any other project, create another external builder. Give it the same name.
3. An error message says "A configuration with this name already exists"
Comment 1 Michael Rennie CLA 2011-11-30 16:23:13 EST 
This is because launch configurations have a flat naming scheme. See also bug 59289

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 59289 ***