Lars, I'm +1 with caveats...;-) I haven't looked at these classes so I don't know what shape they're in. My concerns are that this would effectively be adding new API late in the cycle (past our usual time). If we want to 'graduate' these classes to become part of the standard eclipse install they have to be up to 'release; standard (which is much stricter for IDE components than it is for incubation code). What are the classes and what shape do you think they're in ?
I wish this had been brought up earlier, it's obvious that the Platform is
the right place for this code but I'm wondering whether it may be better to
hold off until Kepler releases and then make sure that this happens *early*
(M1) in Luna. During Luna I hope that we can also look into graduating the
Model and CSS editors but we'll have to see how we can do this since
graduating them will place the code under the stricter 'Platform' standards
and I don't want to inhibit the excellent rate of progress. Perhaps this is
a non-issue since it's brand new code but we'll have to talk it over at
least.
Eric
From: Lars Vogel <[email protected]>
To: E4 Project developer mailing list <[email protected]>,
Date: 04/18/2013 09:35 AM
Subject: [e4-dev] Move wrapper classes to platform?
Sent by: [email protected]
Hi,
The e4 tools project offers wrapper classes which allow to wrap POJOs and
perform DI on them. The wrapper classes provide the old API, e.g. one of
them extend ViewPart. This allows to use the new programming model for
plug-in development. Tom Schindl did the the development.
Is it an option to move the e4 wrapper classes to platform for Eclipse 4.3?
This way people could easily start using the new programming model via the
wrapper classes.
I think as long as the wrapper classes remain in the e4 tools project their
reach is relatively limited.
IMHO offering the wrapper classes is a good start for a migration story for
the Eclipse plug-in developers. Also the wrapper classes from Tom are
relatively small.
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