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Re: [cdt-dev] ProjectDescription Storage: It should be possible to extend / override persistence mechanism
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HI Markus,
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Schorn, Markus
<Markus.Schorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have reopend the
> bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252966 because the patch
> breaks API in a non-compatible way. For those who use the API-tooling this
> is a big annoyance,
> because you get to see all the errors and it is hard to use the tooling to
> check your own stuff.
Sorry about that. I will get API tooling setup for future. Will
create a short document describing best practice for using the
ICDescriptor API.
> Either the breakage needs to be fixed, or the plugin version has to be
> incremented and then the
> breakage has to be documented. (I would actually expect a documentation
> about breaking API plus a
> discussion before the checkin).
Ok, with a bit more effort there needn't be API breakage from this
patch. We can add serious health warning on using
ICDescriptor.getProjectData(...).
Cheers,
James
