Re: [cdt-dev] CDT 10.0 and API breaking changes (Coming soon?)

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The process needs to be some way of recording what we plan to delete. We can do it on a wiki page, or in bugzilla with a keyword/milestone. In the end we need to publish API changes as part of the N&N at a minimum. 

The Eclipse Platform team have an ongoing process where API is deprecated and removed over a multi-year process. This allows them to remove API in any release without even having to have a major release. 

Therefore we have some process decisions to make:

- Adopt Platform policy for API Deprecate and Deletion (see https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/API_Central/Deprecation_Policy)

- Aim to do everything for Major version release (as done before in CDT)

- Do both (e.g. have major release and then continuously follow platform policy)

The other question is when?

I am very interested in what people's opinions are now - then we can formalize the process.

Thanks,

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 13:23, Mark B <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

it seems a good idea, we could do a grep in the code to detect the deprecated methods and remove them. Have we got a list of things "change at next major version" anywhere? We could change and clean up some parts.

Il mer 22 gen 2020, 16:35 Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

> This issue will be an item in next week's CDT monthly call

That should have said next month's CDT monthly call. Details/agenda coming soon.

Thanks

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 10:15, Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello folks,

This June it will be 4 years since the last major version of CDT was released (change from 8.x to 9.0). During that upgrade it was possible for the first time since 2011 to introduce a breaking API change.

There has been a lot of discussions recently on parts of CDT that are no longer maintained, working or otherwise useful. So it is now time to start preparing for the next version upgrade and to give us a chance to reconcile, internalize, deprecate or remove API and features that are no longer fit for purpose and/or maintained.

To give everyone some background, this was the 9.0 live planning document and the end result was a large API section in the N&N that explains all API changes. 

This email is part of the beginning of that process so please feel free to comment. This issue will be an item in next week's CDT monthly call - stay tuned for an email about that.

Thanks,

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders
www.kichwacoders.com

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