Missing Task Tags Option in Preferences

gpholman wrote on Tue Feb 28 09:38:45 CET 2006:

I'm using latest Eclipse/EPIC/ActivePerl on Windows 2000 and most things
seem to work OK except I do not see the "Task Tags" option under "Perl EPIC"
in the Preferences page.  Any ideas?

martinrichard wrote on Thu Mar 23 18:17:51 CET 2006:

Exact same thing here.. re-downloaded Eclipse, EPIC and did fresh installs,
this panel (referenced everywhere including the doc pdf) is nowhere to be
found..

and looking at the screenshots in the doc, some other stuff from the prefs
panels seem to be missing.. like smart typing for example.

I'm on WinXP Pro.

jploski wrote on Thu Mar 23 19:57:42 CET 2006:

Did you check if any messages appear in the Error Log view?

martinrichard wrote on Fri Mar 24 05:59:14 CET 2006:

Hmm I don't seem to see any view named like that in Window->Show View->Other..
am I looking at the right place ?

jploski wrote on Fri Mar 24 08:20:54 CET 2006:

The view is (unfortunately) located in the PDE Runtime category, which is
implemented by JDT (the Java IDE). I infer that you are using a version
of Eclipse without JDT. This should not bother EPIC, in principle.

Things to try:
1. Find the error log on disk in /.metadata/.log and examine
it with a text editor.
2. Install EPIC into a full version of Eclipse (including JDT).

martinrichard wrote on Fri Mar 24 16:06:19 CET 2006:

Yes, you're right.. I'll try installing the SDK version of Eclipse instead
of Platform and try again.. I do have errors in the .log file but I might
as well confirm if problems go away with the full Eclipse before going over
the exceptions listed...

martinrichard wrote on Fri Mar 24 17:16:52 CET 2006:

Ok.. Fresh install of the Eclipse JDK Package, reinstalled EPIC 0.3.0 from
the /updates url. I get this in the errors view

!SESSION 2006-03-24 11:14:45.673 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=M20060118-1600
java.version=1.4.2_06
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 1 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.739
!MESSAGE Warnings while parsing the commands from the 'org.eclipse.ui.commands'
and 'org.eclipse.ui.actionDefinitions' extension points.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 1 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.739
!MESSAGE Commands should really have a category, not categoryId='': plug-in='org.epic.perleditor',
commandId='org.epic.perleditor.uncomment'.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 1 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.739
!MESSAGE Commands should really have a category, not categoryId='': plug-in='org.epic.perleditor',
commandId='org.epic.perleditor.comment'.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 1 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.739
!MESSAGE Commands should really have a category, not categoryId='': plug-in='org.epic.perleditor',
commandId='org.epic.perleditor.contentassist'.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 1 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.739
!MESSAGE Commands should really have a category, not categoryId='': plug-in='org.epic.perleditor',
commandId='org.epic.perleditor.htmlexport'.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 1 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.749
!MESSAGE Commands should really have a category, not categoryId='': plug-in='org.epic.perleditor',
commandId='org.epic.perleditor.formatsource'.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 2 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.889
!MESSAGE Warnings while parsing the key bindings from the 'org.eclipse.ui.commands'
extension point
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 2 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.889
!MESSAGE Cannot bind to an undefined command: plug-in='org.epic.perleditor',
commandId='org.epic.eclipse.perleditor.uncomment'.
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.ui 2 0 2006-03-24 11:14:49.889
!MESSAGE Cannot bind to an undefined command: plug-in='org.epic.perleditor',
commandId='org.epic.eclipse.perleditor.comment'.



And like before, no tasks related panel in the preferences..

jploski wrote on Fri Mar 24 19:06:30 CET 2006:

Oh.. so you are using the so-called "stable" release. I would advise against
it. It does not seem stable, just old and unmaintained. Try either "testing"
or the latest unofficial one:

http://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/downloads/epic-devel.zip

(which is what I use)

The warnings you quoted appear harmless. I suspect that the Tasks view is
simply not implemented in "stable".

martinrichard wrote on Sat Mar 25 19:29:22 CET 2006:

I think that's exactly it.. maybe that could be made clearer on the main
page :D

Thanks for the info !