RE: [cdt-debug-dev] List of Plan items

[Alain Magloire <alain@xxxxxxx>]

> From: cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-debug-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mikhail Khodjaiants
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:03 AM
> To: CDT Debug developers list
> Subject: RE: [cdt-debug-dev] List of Plan items
> 
> John,
> 
> I suggested it in case you needed this feature to work with the current
> version.

> Otherwise, I agree that ICDIObject should extend IAdapatable.

And ICDISessionObject if you want to go this route.

> My new code looks ugly with all these instanceof, because I am avoiding
the
> usage of interfaces like ICDITarget, ICDIThread, etc...

You know it is still unclear to me what you are trying to do and why you
want to avoid this interfaces since you are negating all the benefices.
We certainly would like to morph the interface some way or another so it
could be useful but gives more hints/details.

> And you are right, the historical reason is no longer relevant, so there
> is no restriction to use Eclipse-specific interfaces.
> 

See other post for the reasons.

> Mikhail
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-debug-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Cortell
> Sent: 17 October 2006 14:36
> To: CDT Debug developers list; CDT Debug developers list
> Subject: RE: [cdt-debug-dev] List of Plan items
> 
> 
> Mikhail,
> 
> The motivation for supporting IAdaptable is not to use it in the CDO back-
> end (although one may certainly do so), but to use it in the CDT code.
> That is, with it, we can stop using instanceof to check for interfaces. I
> suppose we could have CDT use instance of to get the IAdaptable, but that
> doesn't really close the gap all the way.
> 
> As for the historical reason...surely, that is no longer a relevant goal,
> is it? I.e., four year-old uncertainties shouldn't restrict us today.
> 
> John
> 
> At 07:37 AM 10/17/2006, Mikhail Khodjaiants wrote:
> 
> 
> 	John,
> 
> 	I don't know if my answers will satisfy you, but I'll try.
> 	1. If you need IAdaptable you can add it to your implementation and
> check if your object is instance of IAdaptable.
> 	2. Regarding the history, the idea was to create a pure (non
> Eclipse) interface. Eclipse wasn't very stable at that time and the Debug
> API had just changed very seriously (Eclipse 1.0 -> 2.0).
> 
> 	Regards,
> 	Mikhail
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> 	From: cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:cdt-debug-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> ] On Behalf
> Of John Cortell
> 	Sent: 17 October 2006 13:23
> 	To: CDT Debug developers list; CDT Debug developers list
> 	Subject: RE: [cdt-debug-dev] List of Plan items
> 
> 	At 12:58 PM 10/16/2006, Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> 
> 		I do not see any difficulty except that it will break
backward
> compatibility
> 		but since this is targeting a major release, it should not
be
> a problem.
> 
> 
> 	Hm. I'd like to stop for a second and discuss this point. Is it true
> that we should be OK with breaking CDI compatibility in 4.0? We're working
> on various features (which we will contribute for 4.0) where we go out of
> the way to not break compatibility, by, e.g., introducing an ICDIThread2.
> If we're looking at breaking compatibility anyway, then there's no point
> in use going this messier route.
> 
> 
> 
> 		The other thing, is that we did not want to bring
> org.eclipse.* namespace in
> 		to the interface so we could;
> 
> 
> 	I'm with Pawel--in need of a history lesson. Why is this?
> 
> 	John
> 
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