RE: [cdt-dev] discouraged access in CDT-plugins

["Mikhail Khodjaiants" <Mikhail.Khodjaiants@xxxxxxx>]

Markus,

I agree with you that using non-API is bad and I am glad you are not
using it in your development. I would be happy to do the same.
But we heavily depend on the Eclipse Debug Platform and it has been
changing very seriously since 3.0 was released. 
Initially we had two options: 
a) wait until the API is stabilized and than make necessary changed
b) use the provisional API and provide a feedback to the Eclipse team
We decided to go for the second option which has been discussed many
times. The provisional API has been changed several times and as a
result we have had to catch up to it. This applies only to the Modules
view implementation.
Apart from this I have found two internal platform classes that we are
using: 
- DebugUIPlugin is used to provided a temporary fix for a bug that has
been fixed lately - in 3.2.2 and it can be removed.
- SourceLookupManager is used by the CSourceNotFoundEditor and I think
Ken Ryall can explain why.
We also use some internal CDT classes but I hope we can come up with a
solution for these cases.
Hope this will be helpful to understand the problem.

Best regards,
Mikhail Khodjaiants

-----Original Message-----
From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Schorn, Markus
Sent: 26 February 2007 14:19
To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: [cdt-dev] discouraged access in CDT-plugins

Hi,
In CDT 4.0M5 the plugins 'org.elipse.cdt.core' and 'org.eclipse.cdt.ui'
did not use any non-API from the platform. I still don't accept that we
introduce such non-API usage with M6.
I'd like to understand the CDT-committers opinion on it.

My thinking is that using non-API is bad because:
* we loose control about whether CDT 4.0 is compatible with a future
  minor or even maintainance platform release.
* if we just add enough of such non-API calls CDT it will become a
  nightmare to maintain CDT, so if this is really necessary, we
  should have very good reasons.

There are actually some rules on using non-API, that were created by the
Planning Council, I think we should follow them.
http://www.eclipse.org/org/councils/20070123PCMinutes.php

Markus.
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