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Bug 365357

Summary:	org.eclipse.core.boot seems unnecessary
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Remy Suen

2011-12-01 14:44:10 EST

This bundle has a readme.txt that says the following:

The features provided by this plug-in moved to org.eclipse.core.runtime, org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatiblilty or org.eclipse.update.configurator.

Perhaps this bundle should have been excluded from the Git migration? Can this bundle be deleted from Git?

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2011-12-01 15:48:37 EST

This bundle is still in org.eclipse.platform feature as of 3.8. It was never present in 4.x however, so it will die along with the 3.x stream. The only reason it was kept around was for compatibility for anyone who had a bundle import on it. I believe in ancient times core.boot was added to the plugin classpath "for free" so it was a common dependency for plugins to have.