Re: [e4-dev] x-friends

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You've got it right. We made a good chunk
of the x-friends and x-internal packages API in Juno, but there are still
a lot more that need final polish. These are unlikely to change in significant
ways in the future, but we need more time to make sure we've got it right.
In Luna we should be able to open up even more packages. A good test for
you would be to take any tutorials or examples you have, turn on all warnings,
and see if you are referencing any x-internal/x-friends packages. These
would be candidates to polish up and make "official" in Luna.

John




From:      
 Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 E4 Project developer
mailing list <e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
Date:      
 04/30/2013 02:48 AM
Subject:    
   Re: [e4-dev]
x-friends
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Hi John,

thanks. So far I believe that x-friends would allow _only_
the specified plug-ins to use the API. I now understand that x-friends
is similar to x-internal but prevents the warnings for the specified plug-ins.

That makes sense. thanks.

Best regards, Lars 


2013/4/29 John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>
x-friends means the package is not API,
but we want to allow certain other plugins to access it without getting
API tools warnings. It is really equivalent to x-internal for most consumers.
So, if you see a package that has x-friends that you believe should be
API, speak up now so it can be fixed. 

John 



From:        Lars
Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxx>
To:        E4
Project developer mailing list <e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:        04/29/2013
03:09 PM 
Subject:        [e4-dev]
x-friends 
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Hello, 

I noticed in the commits in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=403189 that
we have x-friends directives in the MANIFEST.MF.  

So far I believed that platform does either use x-internal for marking
API as internal or provisional. What is the reasoning behind the usage
of  x-friends? 

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