Re: [equinox-dev] .qualifier for export package?

[Darin Wright <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> API Tooling also has
> items in plan that deal with package versioning, but that will be post 
M2

FYI - plans for package version support in API tooling have been reduced. 
Currently, there is nothing on the draft plan due to resources available 
to do the work, and the fact that SDK plug-in developers generally use 
components at the plug-in granularity vs. package granularity. I'm not 
sure there is a compelling story to have SDK bundles change to using 
package imports. Of course, if someone else has the resources to do the 
work and sees this as a priority, please step up.

        http://www.eclipse.org/pde/pde-api-tools/dev_plans/r3_5/plan.php

> Thoughts for how/if this should be introduced?

To start, I would like to see a better specification developed/agreed upon 
before tooling is introduced. Currently, the description of package 
versioning is minimal - leaving questions to the developers and tool 
implementors:

        http://wiki.eclipse.org/Version_Numbering#How_to_version_packages

Here are some obvious questions:

* How are @since tags formatted to indicate that the version number 
corresponds to packages vs. bundles?
* How are initial package versions derived for existing bundles?

Darin