Re: [platform-ant-dev] Ant View rework

["John Arthorne" <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxx>]

To put this in context, there are 22MB of class files (compressed) in the
Eclipse SDK.  All copies of StringMatcher combined are 42KB, roughly 0.2%
of the code base.  The copies of Assert are 13K combined.  Yes, there is
some duplicated code.  No, this won't save serious memory.


Jed Anderson wrote:
> If the core team made these classes available to the general public (made
> them API) we (Eclipse as a whole) could save on some serious memory.
> Having 9,10, or 11 copies of some classes is ludicrous.  Perhaps the PMC
> would agree to allowing the core team to mark the classes as "API, to be
> deleted" so that in the future the core team could delete them without
> backlash.  Just an idea...