What's New in 4.30 (PDE)

Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) for the 4.30 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:

Editors
Support for names of product update repositories The PDE Product Editor now supports in its Updates section to specify the Name of each update repository. In the assembled product the names will be presented to a user in the preferences under Available Software Sites.

Product Updates with Name
Removed support for unnecessary attributes in Features and Products The Feature editor has its support for the following attributes of plugin elements removed:
  • download-size
  • install-size
  • unpack
  • fragment
These attributes are unused and without effect for a long time and unnecessarily increase the complexity of the editor and the size of a feature.xml file. They are ignored when present in an existing Feature and removed by the editor upon the next modification through the editor.

The Product Configuration editor has its support for the following attribute of plugin elements removed:

  • fragment
This attribute is unused and without effect for a long time and unnecessarily increase the size of a .product file. They are ignored when present in an existing Product and removed by the editor upon the next modification through the editor.