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Packages disappeared in Target Platform 2023-12

My Eclipse RCP application currently uses the Target Platform 2023-09, which is defined in the 2023-09.target file as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<?pde version="3.8"?>
<target name="Retrospective (2023-09)">
    <locations>
        <location includeAllPlatforms="false" includeConfigurePhase="true" includeMode="planner" includeSource="true" type="InstallableUnit">
            <repository location="http://download.eclipse.org/releases/2023-09/"/>
            <unit id="org.eclipse.equinox.sdk.feature.group" version="0.0.0"/>
            <unit id="org.eclipse.platform.sdk" version="0.0.0"/>
        </location>
    </locations>
</target>

Now I try to upgrade to the recently released Target Platform 2023-12 and created 2023-12.target below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<?pde version="3.8"?>
<target name="Retrospective (2023-12)">
    <locations>
        <location includeAllPlatforms="false" includeConfigurePhase="true" includeMode="planner" includeSource="true" type="InstallableUnit">
            <repository location="http://download.eclipse.org/releases/2023-12/"/>
            <unit id="org.eclipse.equinox.sdk.feature.group" version="0.0.0"/>
            <unit id="org.eclipse.platform" version="0.0.0"/>
        </location>
    </locations>
</target>

After loading this new definition, the classes from the following packages cannot be found anymore.

  • org.eclipse.core.databinding.beans.*
  • org.eclipse.jface.text.*

No idea if these classes have been moved to different packages or if they got completely removed. I was also not able to find any helpful changelog for this topic.

Solution

  • I used

    <unit id="org.eclipse.sdk.feature.group" version="4.30.0.v20231201-0512"/>

    instead of org.eclipse.platform

    For org.eclipse.jface.text I put that in the feature.xml for my own code and Tycho finds it.