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[xtext-dev] PDE API Tooling
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Hi,
I've started to prepare our code base to use PDE API Tooling.
Currently mostly packages from org.eclipse.xtext, org.eclipse.xtext.ui, org.eclipse.xtext.generator and org.eclipse.xtext.util
are non-internal (i.e. API).
In order to get nice feedback for future changes you need to set a base-line (the jars are in the repository).
To do so, open Preferences "Plug-In Development->API Baselines" and point to the new folder
"releng/org.eclipse.xtext.releng/api-baseline/runtime_2.0.0_M6"
For further information about PDE API Tooling see : http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDE/API_Tools/User_Guide
The rational is to explicitly declare a reasonable set of API such that languages can be built based on it and that next year's release
don't require migration nor recompilation (binary compatibility).
However a lot of useful and new stuff (e.g. Xbase) can only be released as provisional API, so that clients have to update and migrate next year.
Cheers,
Sven
