Re: [platform-ui-dev] Fw: [platform-swt-dev] Key listener and Global act

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a misunderstanding of the term
"breaking changes".  The 3.0 plan is concerned only with
breaking changes across Eclipse releases. I.e., M6 was the planned deadline
for breaking changes to API found in Eclipse 2.1.  Any API introduced
during 3.0 development is defacto subject to change until development completes.
This is a necessary freedom that allows us to iterate our design and evolve
the APIs based on feedback during the development cycle. Of course all
teams try to keep breaking changes to a minimum even during development.
 Adding a "this is experimental" caveat to the javadoc is
merely a politeness to indicate new API that is considered more volatile.
 It does not mean that javadoc missing this caveat is immutable.
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Randy wrote on 02/24/2004 11:42:36 AM:
> Can someone update the 3.0 plan? 
> http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_0.html
> "Friday December 19, 2003 - Milestone 6 (3.0 M6) - API freeze
for 
> breaking changes"