423882 – [IDE] Workspace version check should warn if workspace is too new

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Bug 423882 - [IDE] Workspace version check should warn if workspace is too new

Summary: [IDE] Workspace version check should warn if workspace is too new

Status:	VERIFIED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	4.3.1
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	4.4 M7
Assignee:	Christian Georgi
QA Contact:	Paul Webster

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Duplicates (1):	331396 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:	441329
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Reported:	2013-12-12 04:52 EST by Christian Georgi
Modified:	2014-08-07 06:08 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Worspace > IDE (16.73 KB, image/png) 2013-12-12 04:52 EST, Christian Georgi	no flags	Details
Workspace < IDE (18.86 KB, image/png) 2013-12-12 04:53 EST, Christian Georgi	no flags	Details
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Description Christian Georgi

2013-12-12 04:52:12 EST

Whenever users have multiple IDE installations on their machines, they might open up workspaces with one IDE and later-on use the same worspace with an older IDE.  This may lead to all kinds of problems including data loss.
The current workspace version check in IDEApplication does not sufficiently address this issue since it compares the workspace against a static IDE version of "1", which has never changed ever since it was introduced.

The patch below refines the check logic by comparing against major and minor version of the bundle org.eclipse.core.runtime (this one was chosen just for compatibility reasons).  It furthermore shows up 
* A warning if workspace > IDE
* An info if workspace < IDE.

Also see the attached screenshots.

Comment 1 Christian Georgi

2013-12-12 04:52:46 EST

Created attachment 238272 [details]
Worspace > IDE

Comment 2 Christian Georgi

2013-12-12 04:53:04 EST

Created attachment 238273 [details]
Workspace < IDE

Comment 3 Christian Georgi

2013-12-12 04:57:06 EST

https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/19687/

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2013-12-18 07:19:51 EST

*** Bug 331396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2014-04-10 11:20:35 EDT

(In reply to Christian Georgi from comment #3)
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/19687/

Thanks!

Submitted with http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=5a4097eae1f20c85550bbc584589c02ff4a6710c

Comment 6 Wojciech Sudol

2014-06-04 10:50:54 EDT

Verified in I20140528-2000.