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A dash of legacy

July 10th, 2008
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Sometimes you just have to laugh at certain bugs.

For those who don’t know, PDE hasn’t supported “-” in bundle symbolic names (plug-in ids) for awhile due to legacy reasons. Before OSGi was introduced in Eclipse, “-” wasn’t a valid character and this is something that has just stuck with PDE for awhile. It’s funny that it wasn’t noticed until recently… I think mainly due to the SpringSource repository having bundles in this format.

The issue will be fixed in 3.4.1 and 3.5M1 releases.

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Author: Chris Aniszczyk Categories: work Tags: ,
  • Chris Aniszczyk (zx)
    Correct. It was unnecessary and this is something we need to update for 3.5


    I think Oleg was holding back all these years.
  • Wassim Melhem
    PDE has always been enforcing the specs:
    http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/plugin_manifest.html



    The symbolic name is the default namespace for extension points and therefore must not contain a "-" according to the spec.



    If that restriction was unnecessary, then

    the plugin.dtd and that document should also be changed.
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