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Re: [eclipse-dev] ACTION REQUIRED: reduced deprecations

will this make plugins that aren't working with the M5 build work again?

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:22, Jeff McAffer wrote:
> In effort to reduce the number of deprecations and thus ease the
> porting effort, we have released a number of changes to the new
> runtime and compatibility layer.  For people who have not converted to
> the current API, no particular action is required.  You will just see
> a reduction in the number of deprecation warnings.
> 
> For people who converted their plugins to the current API, you will
> have to change again.  This amounts to reverting to the original
> (i.e., standard Eclipse) API. We apologize for the thrashing here but
> we believe the new story is substantially better going forward.
> 
> What you need to do:
> - load the following from HEAD
>         org.eclipse.core.runtime
>         org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility
> - if you are going to launch a runtime workspace you also need to
> ensure you have the following in your workspace as projects
>         org.eclipse.osgi*
>         org.eclipse.update.configurator
>         org.eclipse.core.boot
> - update you code to fix any compile errors
> - runt/test/release
> 
> As far as we know few people have converted to the new API.  We will
> work with the people we know to ensure they are converted for tonights
> build.  If you need help or have problems in this area, please contact
> me or Pascal immediately.
> 
> Jeff



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