RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] Discourages access

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> It would be interesting
to raise an enhancement request on PDE to 
> allow developers to ignore the errors/warnings from certain bundles.
> The problem now is that if you turn off the warning you don’t get
it
> for any other uses of non-API.  
 
I'm sure new features could
add to ease-of-use, but don't forget you can 
get some of this type of
control now, using access rules on your classpath. See 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP:_Consumer_Control_of_Access_Rules
though that link has a broader scope
of what's being discussed here, it has a 
pretty picture of the current UI and
what the .classpath file ends up looking like.

From:	"Jeff McAffer" <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	"'Equinox development mailing list'" <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	05/30/2008 03:28 PM
Subject:	RE: [equinox-dev] [prov] Discourages access

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It was the joint decision
of the team and the PMC that p2 would not have any API.  By definition,
anything that is not API is marked as x-internal = true.  As a result,
and by design, you get a warning that you are using something that is not
API.  I agree that this is annoying however, no one will ever be able
to say they were not warned that the stuff was not API (believe me, many
people have tried to claim they didn’t know that stuff was not API)
 
It would be interesting to
raise an enhancement request on PDE to allow developers to ignore the errors/warnings
from certain bundles.  The problem now is that if you turn off the
warning you don’t get it for any other uses of non-API.  
 
Another strategy that we
talked about at the time was introducing something like x-api:= [internal
| provisional |stable]  This would institutionalize the notion of
provisional API. This could then be tooled accordingly.  Of course,
it opens a number of other issues but they might be worth considering as
the main problem here is real.
 
Summary:  no joy for
you right now but there might be some help from tools if you enter an enhancement
request.
 
Jeff
 
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On Behalf Of Schaefer, Doug
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:13 PM
To: Equinox development mailing list
Subject: [equinox-dev] [prov] Discourages access
 
Hey gang,
 
I'm just wondering why you've hidden all
of the provisional APIs away from everyone other than p2 itself? I'm getting
really tired of seeing Discouraged access warnings in my generators and
installers. Just curious (and venting :)
 
Doug._______________________________________________
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