[cdt-dev] Are DSF APIs ever going to be public?

["Mehregani, Navid" <nmehregani@xxxxxx>]

I’ve been following comments on some bugzillas and mailing lists and here’s what I’ve understood.  Please correct me if I’m wrong:

 

According to Bug 248606 we don’t want to make any DSF APIs public until the flexible hierarchy APIs are made public.  However, the flexible hierarchy APIs won’t be public until the AsynchronousViewer stuff is contribute to JFace as indicated by Bug 161435 and the mailing post here: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-debug-dev/msg01073.html.  Bug#161435 was open more than three years ago (since 2006-10-18).  This is a pretty big contribution and due to the strict governance over JFace, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s never accepted. 

 

I don’t see any major problems with developing on provisional APIs for the short-term.  I’m just wondering what the plan is in the long-term.  Is everything going to stay provisional for a long time to come?

 

Thanks,

 Navid