On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:28 PM Henrik Rentz-Reichert (hrr) <h...@protos.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the Eclipse eTrice project filed a bug [1] against the Text component of
> the Platform.
> We would like to use the org.eclipse.jface.text.rules.RuleBasedScanner in
> a headless application. The RuleBasedScanner and related classes aren't
> depending on UI stuff, which is fine. However, the org.eclipse.jface.text
> bundle is depending on SWT. So we asked for a split into UI dependent and
> UI independent parts into separate bundles.
>
> Since [1] didn't receive an answer within 3 month and I also assume that
> it's not likely that this part would be split off and moved to a separate
> bundle, my question is:
> Is it allowed that the eTrice project forks the needed classes unchanged
> into its own code base? Of course this would require to place them inside a
> new bundle, e.g. org.eclipse.jface.text.rules, to avoid conflicts.
>

I'm sorry for the late reply!
We don't have the manpower to triage all the incoming bugs. Please be a bit
more patient with us and try to actively ping on bugs, send mails to
project links, even direct mails to people that worked on given area is
just fine. It's not like we want  to actively ignore people (especially
proactive people trying to help improving the codebase) it's just that
there are so many hours in the day and when you get hundreds of emails per
day you act on 10-20 and on the next day you start afresh, that's why
consistency in communication is key.
With all of the above said, I've replied to the bug and brought it to
discussion so we can work on proper solution. Initial idea was easy to
implement but would have introduced issues with JPMS and we try our APIs to
stay stable for years.


>
> Thanks,
> Henrik
>
> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=558350
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