Re: [platform-ui-dev] Extension point evolvement question

["Markus Keller" <markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know of such a document. If there
was one, then it would be very short: Don't break existing clients.

If you add new attributes or elements,
the documentation should include "since x.y", the element/attribute
should be optional, and the code that processes the contributions needs
to work when the element/attribute is not there.

HTH
Markus



From:      
 Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Eclipse Platform
UI component developers list." <platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 2016-10-04 17:45
Subject:    
   [platform-ui-dev]
Extension point evolvement question
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Friends of Platform UI,

do we have a wiki / guideline for evolving extension points? I think
adding a new attribute to an existing extension point is save but have
not found a wiki reference for that.

I want to enable dependency injection in e3 parts and to allow views
to opt in, I want to introduce a new flag in the view extension point
schema. See Bug 500688.

Best regards, Lars

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