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Re: Patch: FYI: add real name property
- From: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>
- To: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:56:22 +0530
- Subject: Re: Patch: FYI: add real name property
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Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> The Eclipse ChangeLog plugin wants to know the user's real name, but,
> strangely, there is no Java system property for this. I don't see why
> we shouldn't provide this as a GNU extension. This is both useful and
> safe, as code can easily check for the property's existence at
> runtime.
I strongly suspect it will want to know the email address of
the user as well. :-)
If a plugin can have configurable properties, why not have
the name and the email address the user wants to use for a
given project be properties to be configured by the user for
the plugin for that project?
My 2p.
Ranjit.
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