Since nobody bit on Jeff's request for an enhancement request, I opened bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=234947 to discuss these issues.
Tom
From: "Jeff McAffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Equinox development mailing list'" <equinox-dev@eclipse.org>
Date: 05/30/2008 02:28 PM
Subject: RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] Discourages access
It was the joint decision of the team and the PMC that p2 would not have
any API. By definition, anything that is not API is marked as x-internal =
true. As a result, and by design, you get a warning that you are using
something that is not API. I agree that this is annoying however, no one
will ever be able to say they were not warned that the stuff was not API
(believe me, many people have tried to claim they didn’t know that stuff
was not API)
It would be interesting to raise an enhancement request on PDE to allow
developers to ignore the errors/warnings from certain bundles. The problem
now is that if you turn off the warning you don’t get it for any other uses
of non-API.
Another strategy that we talked about at the time was introducing something
like x-api:= [internal | provisional |stable] This would institutionalize
the notion of provisional API. This could then be tooled accordingly. Of
course, it opens a number of other issues but they might be worth
considering as the main problem here is real.
Summary: no joy for you right now but there might be some help from tools
if you enter an enhancement request.
Jeff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schaefer, Doug
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:13 PM
To: Equinox development mailing list
Subject: [equinox-dev] [prov] Discourages access
Hey gang,
I'm just wondering why you've hidden all of the provisional APIs away from
everyone other than p2 itself? I'm getting really tired of seeing
Discouraged access warnings in my generators and installers. Just curious
(and venting :)
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