[equinox-dev] [p2] Refactoring of helper classes

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm starting the process of cleaning
up the p2 API. I'd like to get the most cross-cutting changes out of the
way at the beginning of the milestone before everyone starts on major conflicting
changes in M4.  Please let me know if you are planning on releasing
major changes in the next day or two so I can coordinate these changes
with you. This essentially involves removal of org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core.helpers
as an API package, and dispersing its classes into either API or non-API
packages as appropriate. If all goes well I'll release these changes Tuesday
or Wednesday evening (I'll send out a note with more specific details before
and after). For most clients the net effect will just be an "organize
imports" to fix up the moved references.

John