Re: [pde-dev] preparing to graduate API tooling

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Great.  thanks for the answers.
 You might want to make those points a bit more explicitly in the
materials (or perhpas they are and I just missed them...)

This whole area is very exciting...

Jeff

Darin Wright/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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> 
> - Do you expect to have version checking tools as well?  That
is, 
> checking that the version numbers were properly incremented based
on
> the analyzed changes. 

Yes, we intend to provide problem markers and quick fixes for incorrect
bundle/plug-in version numbers. 

> 
> - Will you support headless build time analysis? 

The code is designed to run headless without OSGi to support build time
analysis. Initially we need to produce "API description" metadata
as part of each bundle in the build. Time permitting we would like to produce
API usage and binary compatibility reports as part of the build. We have
the code to produce the information required for the report - we just need
to allocate time/resources to integrate this in to the releng process,
and produce nicley formatted reports. We'll require some help/coordination
with the releng team for this. 

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