Apparently Buildship generates these when one uses Import -> Existing
Gradle Project:
<https://discuss.gradle.org/t/buildship-eclipse-plug-in-multiproject-builds/24030/5>.
We can use the Gradle "eclipse" plugin if customizations are
necessary, but my impression is that the intent is to treat ".project"
and ".classpath" as generated files, not sources to be tracked in
source control.
This change affects both top-level subdirectory names as well as
Eclipse plug-in feature names. Perhaps it would have been possible to
change only the latter, but I don't like the idea of the two being
different.
These name changes fix three Eclipse plug-in warnings of the form:
Illegal value '...-feature' for attribute 'id'.
Legal token characters are "a-z", "A-Z", "0-9", "_". Tokens
must be separated by "."
I'll be the first to admit that I know nearly nothing about Eclipse
plug-in development. If changing these plug-in feature IDs has
broader implications that the automated regression tests won't detect,
then I probably overlooked them too. I would greatly appreciate
skeptical review of this change by someone who knows Eclipse plug-in
development well.
Note that personal Eclipse workspaces may need some manual adjustment
after this change. The three "...-feature" Eclipse projects should be
removed from the workspace, and the three corresponding "..._feature"
Eclipse projects should be added. If you do your git pull using
Eclipse's team features, perhaps it is smart enough to do this for
you? I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if fixing things
manually were still needed even in that case.
Ben Liblit