FYI,
It was brought to my attention that the platform team apparently plans
to make major version increments when deleting deprecated API:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=540481#c5
I think this will simply be a *major disaster for the ecosystem*. How
many highly stable plugins will not be installable in the next release?
Many thousands! What do all the API consumers need to do? Bump their
upper bound; presumably they've all be paying close attention and have
stopped using the deprecated APIs long ago...
I'm starting to feel ill just considering inflicting such a thing on the
community.
I would have expected to see some announcement on such a policy change.
*I beg the Eclipse PMC to reconsider.* I'll quickly resort to ugly
threats if necessary. I.e., I will not change the version ranges in EMF
and I will not provide a build for 2018-12 if this ill conceived plan
goes forward, which of course means 2018-12 itself will not go forward.
I find it inconceivable that anyone thinks this will be anything but a
complete and total disaster.
Regards,
Ed
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