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[platform-debug-dev] Re: [cdt-dev] Are DSF APIs ever going to be public?

Mehregani, Navid wrote:

I’ve been following comments on some bugzillas and mailing lists and here’s what I’ve understood.  Please correct me if I’m wrong:

 

According to Bug 248606 we don’t want to make any DSF APIs public until the flexible hierarchy APIs are made public.  However, the flexible hierarchy APIs won’t be public until the AsynchronousViewer stuff is contribute to JFace as indicated by Bug 161435 and the mailing post here: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-debug-dev/msg01073.html.  Bug#161435 was open more than three years ago (since 2006-10-18).  This is a pretty big contribution and due to the strict governance over JFace, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s never accepted. 

 

I don’t see any major problems with developing on provisional APIs for the short-term.  I’m just wondering what the plan is in the long-term.  Is everything going to stay provisional for a long time to come?

I would agree with John's comment in the bug in that I'd prefer to keep them provisional.  However, flexible hierarchy viewer was introduced in 2005 and is still provisional so I would say that's long term already.  Over the years we've addressed bugs and missing features and added a test suite.  But the viewer is still difficult to use, it's still missing key features (e.g. sorting), still has some bugs, and is very complex internally.  So IMO we have ways to go before it's something we could contribute to jface.

-Pawel

 

Thanks,

 Navid


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