Re: [eclipse-pmc] Request PMC approval for removal of (transitively) pub

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 +1 from me for cleaning up the LineSpacingProvider API before our 4.8 release.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear PMC,
>
> With https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=532130 , we'd like to
> simplify and improve how iniline annotations/code minings are drawn by
> moving away from LineSpacingProvider.
> I did merge the related patch doing so
> http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.text.git/commit/?id=2d294da598154bcd7ebf63fa4dc6ae8783304be5
> , but then API Tools reported that this was introducing an API breakage:
> http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20180318-2000/apitools/freeze_report.html
> . API Tools is obviously right here and Dani noticed it promptly and already
> reverted the patch.
> The initial issue comes from earlier implementation that exposed the
> getLineSpacing method as an inherited public member instead of using
> composition to hiding it. This method was introduced in M5. Although it
> wasn't annotated as @noreference and public, this method was never meant to
> be part of the API and we are not aware of anyone who's referencing it from
> InlineAnnotationSupport nor of any use case for which anyone would want to
> use it. So we feel confident that it's a safe thing to get rid of it now.
>
> PMC, please evaluate whether changing this API is acceptable at this point
> and mention ASAP if and when we can re-apply the suggested patch.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --
> Mickael Istria
> Eclipse IDE developer, at Red Hat Developers community
> Elected Committer Representative at the Eclipse Foundation board of
> directors
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