Bug 533490 - Find unused dependencies does not respect indirectly referenced class files

[HannesWell]

This PR resolves Bug 533490

It was first addressed in Eclipse Gerrit Change 138143 but abandoned because it was not completed at the time of the move.

@iloveeclipse you created the mentioned Gerrit as a base for further discussions.
I can try to complete this in the near future and can also check the mentioned performance concerns.

[vogella]

@HannesWell could you finish this one? Would be nice to have a "reliable" way to clean up unused dependencies.

[laeubi]

Last time I checked this PDE was actually right and it is more a restriction of the JDT compiler (or PDE) that it do not find transitive dependencies that are not used in the code! OSGi do not require to import those...

[HannesWell]

@HannesWell could you finish this one? Would be nice to have a "reliable" way to clean up unused dependencies.

Sorry at the moment I don't have the intention to work on this soon. I want to work more on making mixed products work.
Unfortunately I caught Covid as souvenir of my vacation I'm currently sick and can't really work on this. But I hope to complete that before M3.

[vogella]

@HannesWell could you finish this one? Would be nice to have a "reliable" way to clean up unused dependencies.

Sorry at the moment I don't have the intention to work on this soon. I want to work more on making mixed products work. Unfortunately I cached Covid as souvenir of my vacation I'm currently sick and can't really work on this. But I hope to complete that before M3.

Gute Besserung, ich hoffe Du hast einen milden Verlauf (loosly translated: all the best to you).

[HannesWell]

Gute Besserung, ich hoffe Du hast einen milden Verlauf (loosly translated: all the best to you).

Danke! Mir gings schon besser, aber bin auf dem Weg der Besserung.

[laeubi]

FYI @HannesWell I have created:

• Bug 533490 - Find unused dependencies does not respect indirectly referenced class files #332

let me know if there was already a GH issue. As I plan to work on this, can you give a short update if you have further worked on this or if I should/can base my efforts on your PR?

[HannesWell]

let me know if there was already a GH issue.

Not that I'm aware of.

As I plan to work on this, can you give a short update if you have further worked on this or if I should/can base my efforts on your PR?

Yes please go ahead. And no I have not further worked on this one.
I also just transfered this PR from a Gerrit change that was not completed at the time of the migration to GitHub, so I cannot further assist you on that topic.

Let me know if you want to create your own PR and this can be closed. But I'm also fine if you want to push your changes on this one. As you prefer.

[laeubi]

This is now fixed with

• Use PdeProjectAnalyzer to compute required packages #1862