On Dec 5, 2007 8:13 AM, Murat Eken <eken.murat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get the default values for preferences working, using the
> preferenceCustomization (preferences.ini) property in
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.products->product extension point, and everything
> seems to work except for the subclipse preferences. I wanted the svnkit to
> be the default client and added the following
> org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui/pref_svninterface=svnkit
> to my preferences.ini file. Unfortunately, that preference wasn't picked up.
> I did a quick debug session and I've noticed that Eclipse initializes the
> default scope correctly with the svnkit property from the preferences.ini
> file, however, in the start method of the SVNUIPlugin, the
> org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.Preferences.initializePreferences method
> overrides this value with its runtime defaults (javahl in this case). AFAIK,
> the preferences.ini values should have precedence over the runtime defaults
> (see this for the order of things).
>
> Since Eclipse 3.0 you can initialize the runtime defaults using an extension
> point (see AbstractPreferenceInitializer) and that will take care of the
> precedence stuff. If you'd agree to refactor that, I could give a hand by
> sending a patch.
Enter an issue and attach the patch. We might need some explanation
to go with it, but it will probably depend on the patch and what has
to be changed.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on Wed Dec 5 15:08:34 2007