Bug 224409

Summary:

The ability to mark extension points as "internal"

Product:

[Eclipse Project] PDE

Reporter:

Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk>

Component:

Assignee:

Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

jeffmcaffer, laurent.goubet, mariot.chauvin

Version:

3.4

Keywords:

noteworthy

Target Milestone:

3.4 M7

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
org.eclipse.pde.core.patch	none
org.eclipse.pde.patch	none
mylyn/context/zip	none

Description Chris Aniszczyk

2008-03-27 12:25:51 EDT

PDE allows developers to mark packages as being internal and flags users using these internal packages. I think the same logic can be applied to extension points. There are cases when extension points are "internal" user only and not ready for public consumption yet. We have a couple examples of this throughout the SDK.

Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-03-27 12:26:20 EDT

I kind of like this one for M7.

Comment 2 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-03-27 12:31:19 EDT

we should consider also allowing an 'x-friends' type concept for this... some extension points may be "internal" for only some...

Comment 3 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-04-21 03:17:45 EDT

Created attachment 96779 [details]
org.eclipse.pde.core.patch

I need a patch for safe keeping here.

Other work is taking priorty. No guarantees yet for M7!

Comment 4 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-04-27 18:32:33 EDT

Created attachment 97742 [details]
org.eclipse.pde.patch

And we have take off!

Comment 5 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-04-27 18:32:37 EDT

Created attachment 97743 [details]
mylyn/context/zip

Comment 6 Chris Aniszczyk

2008-04-27 18:35:37 EDT

done.

> 20080427

It is now possible to mark extension points as 'internal' and users of these extension points will get discouraged access warnings.

I will open another bug to create a concept of "friends" but that is out of the scope for 3.4... this is better than nothing :)