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Re: [jdt-core-dev] Concern about removal of unused import preferences
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I blinked at this one too for a second, Craig, but quickly focused on
"INVALID". Not unused, invalid. :-)
> I usually ignore most of the build noise in eclipse-dev, but happened to see the following yesterday:
> The 2 test failures in jdt.ui.tests are due to the following change in
> jdt.core:
> Compiler options for controlling the severity of problems for invalid
> imports or unreachable code got discontinued. Indeed, allowing this
> kind of problems to be ignored or treated as a warning would violate
> the language spec. As a consequence,
> JavaCore#COMPILER_PB_INVALID_IMPORT and
> JavaCore#COMPILER_PB_UNREACHABLE_CODE got deprecated, further
> attempts to set these preferences are now ignored and import problems
> or unreachable code are always reported as errors.
> The jdt.ui tests will have to be changed to not use these options.
> I'm extremely concerned about the removal of this preference from
> Eclipse. The team I'm working on is in charge of porting a large Java
> application from one platform to another and adding certain feature
> enhancements. The code that we receive to be ported is definitely not clean
> (in many different ways). The codebase is filled with unused imports that
> up until now we have just ignored in those projects. Removing this
> preference will most likely force my development team to be stuck on Eclipse
> 2.1.x for the foreseeable future. It is unlikely that our vendor will
> respond to requests to clean up these problems and we can't afford to manage
> the merge processing from release to release if we clean these up ourselves
> to make Eclipse happy.
> I apologize for not getting involved in any discussion that occurred
> prior to this change, but I didn't even know it was under consideration.
> I'm wondering what the reasoning for this removal is and whether or not this
> change is set in stone?
> Thanks,
> Craig
> Craig Setera
> Master Software Engineer, SPSS, Rochester MN
> Sun Certified Java Programmer, Developer and
> Web Component Developer
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