building a project that uses the pde tools (annotations) is that really only supported from Tycho 5.0 on?

[jcompagner]

We have a jface patch that uses the pde tools so i get this:

workspace/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/CheckboxTableViewer.java:[23]
[ERROR] import org.eclipse.pde.api.tools.annotations.NoExtend;
[ERROR] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[ERROR] The import org.eclipse.pde cannot be resolved

It works inside in eclipse because of the container that is added:

https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse/blob/master/org.eclipse.jface/.classpath#L4

now i do read in the release notes of 5.0 that this is a plugin that we can add for 5.0?

https://github.com/eclipse-tycho/tycho/blob/main/RELEASE_NOTES.md

so with 4.0 its not possible yet to build something like this with tycho?

[laeubi]

Well first it often don't harm to simply try it out as many features (if not all) are backported to Tycho 4 at the moment, this might change when something prevents us to do so (e.g major refactoring happens, new maven/java versions used ...).

Now if you look here you will see the plugin is actually there and eclipse platform is also using this so in general I don't see a reason for this not working in Tycho 4 line.

[jcompagner]

ahh thx, yeah i was looking in the release notes and there it seems to be that it was under the tycho 5 section ..

But i will try this out, thx.