| Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] JFace Generics |
|
John, Please me be equally provocative. Suppose I decide I'd like EMF to progress a lot faster, after all, it's very limiting maintaining all this binary compatibility and it would be so wonderful to fix mistakes of the past. So, all things considered (well, all things considered that matter, i.e., just my own opinion), I'm going to make changes to introduce EMF 3.0, and of course I'm going to release it into the train as I've always done. Unfortunately EMF's plugins are singletons, so everyone on the train will have have to consume what I provide; no EMF 2.10 won't be on the train. It will start use dependency injection right in the core, so adopters will depend on those bundles too; dependency injection is great. Yes, that means you too, Eclipse platform, you must live with whatever I decide it best for my project's future; just go read the rules and if in doubt ask John about the subject, he's stated his opinion very clearly. I'm well within my rights to disregard anyone's and everyone's feedback as I see fit. Of course I know you adopters won't all be pleased, but I can find one or two who are will be ecstatic, so clearly I'm right, and in any case, I'm not on this earth specifically to please anyone. I know it will be very hard for everyone to change their bundle constraints, and to use the new refactored bundling of EMF, but it's for the long term good of EMF, progress is king, and nothing you say will sway me from my course. And don't bother making any technical arguments because firstly, I'll throw those back it into your face and scream "progress and the committers are king," and secondly, I'll just argue that I'll find some way eventually, hopefully, probably, maybe, to address them all, so please be patient and expect and accept my half baked ideas in M2. I'm so looking forward to your feedback (which of course I can ignore as I see fit) as you help me find the flaws in my designs. And by the way, the more noise you annoyed adopters generate, the more I'll argue that my whole approach of simply inflecting all this upon you without warning and without recourse has worked a charm. Isn't that all simply charming? Everything I said above is 100% counter to what I've grown to expect from other projects at Eclipse and what I feel is expected (and yes required) of me personally as a steward for widely adopted technology. So I'm definitely not pleased by your provocative commentary. I suggest you be careful with that approach because in open source what goes around comes around. More constructively, I suggest you move this to a branch and provide branch builds for adopters; it's seems you've not made that decision yet. Technically you'll need to consider carefully the poor interaction between arrays and generics. To make to make sure it all pans out and to understand the cost of doing so, you ought to refactor the entire platform's code base, Equinox, JDT, and PDE included, to accommodate this new design. After all, how else can you assess whether the new approach really makes a significant portion of the code significantly better? While you're at it, you might decide to finally get rid of all your existing raw type warnings. If that all sounds daunting, consider carefully what you're asking of your adopter community. Regards, Ed On 30/08/2013 8:52 PM, John Arthorne
wrote:
I hope everyone realizes I was being a bit provocative just to prove a point (I think I learned this from you Doug ;) Committers are generally pretty reasonable and will always try hard to keep adopters satisfied. Adopters are obviously very important to any project and their views should always be considered. I'm hopeful in this particular case we'll find a middle ground that allows progress to be made without further unnecessary disruption for consumers. My main goal was refuting the assertion that "adopters have to be pleased" and that committers are not permitted to make disruptive changes if adopters don't like it. The final decision on direction for any Eclipse project will be made by its own contributors. |