This’ll Be Funny One Day

Posted by pookzilla on August 9, 2006

Some time ago I was asked to help out with an Eclipse-based application. This drew me away from my workbench responsibilities for quite awhile and now that the other project is drawing to a close I find myself trying to re-integrate into the day to day life of an Eclipse developer. I’ve set out to start fixing certain small bugs as I encounter them and I found one today that instantly drew my attention – for some reason we were showing the Preference and Quit action on OS X not only in the Application menu (where they belong) but in the File and Window menus as well. I logged myself a bug, checked out a fresh copy of the workbench source into a fresh copy of I20060809 and set out to fix it. The fix involved tweaking the workbench window advisor and the carbon fragment that ships with the OS X version of Eclipse but after a short time I had a patch that addressed the issue.

Then deja vu struck.

Hesitantly I entered a quick search in bugzilla – bugs owned by me, on the Macintosh platform, that contained the word “pref” in the title.

Bug 73729 was returned in the results. Not only had this bug been noted before, but it had been assigned to me and I had already written an almost identical patch for it already.

That’ll teach me to let my attention to Eclipse lapse. She is a harsh mistress whose lessons do not go down easily.