It
was the joint decision of the team and the PMC that p2 would not have any
API. By definition, anything that is not API is marked as x-internal =
true. As a result, and by design, you get a warning that you are using
something that is not API. I agree that this is annoying however, no one
will ever be able to say they were not warned that the stuff was not API
(believe me, many people have tried to claim they didn’t know that stuff was
not API)
It
would be interesting to raise an enhancement request on PDE to allow
developers to ignore the errors/warnings from certain bundles. The
problem now is that if you turn off the warning you don’t get it for any other
uses of non-API.
Another
strategy that we talked about at the time was introducing something like
x-api:= [internal | provisional |stable] This would institutionalize the
notion of provisional API. This could then be tooled accordingly. Of
course, it opens a number of other issues but they might be worth considering
as the main problem here is real.
Summary:
no joy for you right now but there might be some help from tools if you enter
an enhancement request.
Jeff
From:
equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Schaefer, Doug
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:13
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To: Equinox development mailing list
Subject:
[equinox-dev] [prov] Discourages access
I'm just wondering
why you've hidden all of the provisional APIs away from everyone other than p2
itself? I'm getting really tired of seeing Discouraged access warnings in my
generators and installers. Just curious (and venting
:)
