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Bug 543927

Summary:	Remove Activator from org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	julian.honnen, Lars.Vogel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	4.11 M1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/135916 https://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.p2.git/commit/?id=5e839868c2e2099f055ea9dcf40c303e4b71cb2e https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=544066
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Description Lars Vogel

2019-01-29 03:58:20 EST

The activator seems to do nothing we cannot do at runtime. Unnecessary usage of Activators are IMHO an anti-pattern and we should remove them whenever possible.

Comment 1 Eclipse Genie

2019-01-29 04:05:54 EST

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/135916

Comment 2 Eclipse Genie

2019-01-31 14:21:56 EST

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/135916 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.p2.git/commit/?id=5e839868c2e2099f055ea9dcf40c303e4b71cb2e

Comment 3 Lars Vogel

2019-04-08 23:38:16 EDT

Thanks, Mykola for the review and the update.