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Dani,
My faith is restored! Thanks!!
Regards,
Ed
On 30.10.2018 16:29, Daniel Megert
wrote:
Hi Ed
Last time we
discussed
this in 2017 there were different opinions on this topic but we
never decided
on the topic. Today we decided unanimously that in general we
will NOT
increase the major version when removing deprecated API.
HTH
Dani
From:
Ed
Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
Cross
project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
30.10.2018
11:33
Subject:
[cross-project-issues-dev]
Will the Platform Start Making Major Version
Increments?
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FYI,
It was brought to my attention that
the
platform team apparently plans to make major version increments
when deleting
deprecated API:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=540481#c5
I think this will simply be a major
disaster for the ecosystem. How many highly stable
plugins
will not be installable in the next release? Many thousands!
What do all the API consumers need to do? Bump their upper
bound;
presumably they've all be paying close attention and have
stopped using
the deprecated APIs long ago...
I'm starting to feel ill just
considering
inflicting such a thing on the community.
I would have expected to see some
announcement
on such a policy change. I beg the Eclipse PMC to
reconsider.
I'll quickly resort to ugly threats if necessary. I.e., I will
not
change the version ranges in EMF and I will not provide a build
for 2018-12
if this ill conceived plan goes forward, which of course means
2018-12
itself will not go forward.
I find it inconceivable that anyone
thinks
this will be anything but a complete and total disaster.
Regards,
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