Re: [equinox-dev] concurrent.future provisional api

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

FWIW there was quite a lot of discussion and public review of this API 
as part of the original contribution.  The history is here:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=253777

I've opened this bug to track the graduation request:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=309247

Scott


Thomas Watson wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> I am glad to hear you have been making good use of the 
> concurrent.future package in ECF. Unfortunately I don't see us being 
> able to commit to fully reviewing the API in the last two weeks of M7 
> to allow it to become API for Helios. This will have to wait until the 
> next release. Please open a bug report requesting the graduation of 
> the API for next release. We should plan to get it done in an early 
> milestone (M1 or M2).
>
> At least the package is not in some "internal" named package so when 
> we do make it real API we will not be automatically breaking clients. 
> Only if we find something that must change will clients be broken when 
> it becomes API.
>
> Tom
>
>
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> Inactive hide details for Scott Lewis ---04/13/2010 09:33:38 PM---Hi 
> Folks,Scott Lewis ---04/13/2010 09:33:38 PM---Hi Folks,
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> Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 	
> 04/13/2010 09:33 PM
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> [equinox-dev] concurrent.future provisional api
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> Hi Folks,
>
> The org.eclipse.equinox.concurrent bundle has a package in it:  
> org.eclipse.equinox.concurrent.future that is exported, but is currently
> marked
> x-internal:="true" since it's been considered provisional since being
> introduce Jan 2009.  I would like to consider removing x-internal="true"
> for Helios.
>
> ECF has been using the provisional API for about 1 year now for our
> remote service API async/messaging support and for discovery API, and so
> far the usage has not generated any required changes.
>
> So please let me know how/if this could be done.
>
> Scott
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