Re: [equinox-dev] Fw: [Bug 214801] [api tools] consider Export-Package as API

2008-01-15 Thread Darin Wright
PDE is planning to add support to flag missing version numbers on package exports (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205198). The bug report suggest the default severity for a missing package version should be ignore, but I would suggest to start it at warning, and add a quick fix

Re: [equinox-dev] Fw: [Bug 214801] [api tools] consider Export-Package as API

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Aniszczyk
If we use something other than IGNORE, there will be billions of warnings, keep that in mind. I personally think that versioning is an advanced concept and we should becareful how we display that information to beginners. In PDE, we have to be very careful and not alienate beginners. If we want