Bug 483839

Summary:	Add @Deprecated to TreePathViewerSorter and offer replacement
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, Lars.Vogel, markus.kell.r, pwebster, simon.scholz
Version:	4.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	395213, 402464
Bug Blocks:	482137

Description Lars Vogel

2015-12-07 14:21:27 EST

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #402464 +++

From https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=402464#c12

>  ** @deprecated see <code>ViewerSorter</code> for more information.
>...
> public class TreePathViewerSorter extends ViewerSorter {

That doesn't make sense and violates our rules about API deprecation.

ViewerSorter doesn't tell what clients of TreePathViewerSorter should do. If you want to deprecate TreePathViewerSorter, you have to implement a new class TreePathViewerComparator and port at least one client as a proof that it really works.