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Re: [pde-build-dev] update site builder, was: How to properly use configs= property
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Pascal Rapicault 12/01/2005 11:19:13 PM:
>>>>> In the SDK team we build our update site by first doing a normal
>>>>> build and then running a little tool that Sonia wrote but it is
>>>>> not available to the public because we don't want to have the
>>>>> burden to maintain it.
Tom Roche 12/02/2005 08:36 AM
>>>> Why not just put it in an internal package?
Pascal Rapicault 12/02/2005 09:05:15 AM (rearranged)
>>> The problem is: as soon as it is in, then people will start using
>>> it, enter bug, complain, etc, etc... and we will then have to
>>> maintain it
>>> The problem is not internal vs public.
Umm, no:
http://dev.eclipse.org/naming.html
>> ISVs will be told that all packages marked internal are out of
>> bounds. (A simple text search for ".internal." detects suspicious
>> reference in source files; likewise, "/internal/" is suspicious in
>> .class files).
Benefit: tool is made available to folks who could use it.
Cost: you hafta "just say no" to bug reports.
Recommendation: create a text file with contents like
> We only support API. Packages marked "internal" are not API.
Cut and paste, set Status=CLOSED, set Resolution=WONTFIX, hit the
Commit button. How hard it that? One minute of work, max.