Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Avoiding Bloat

[Eike Stepper <stepper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi e4 list,

I hope it's ok to jump in here...

From former experiences with building tools on top of the Platform I 
know another important source for bloat (if it has not been mentioned 
before).

A good example is the CVS support which implements very cool 
functionality. Unfortunately, IIRC,  it has two major disadvantages for 
programmatic users:

[1] It's mostly internal, i.e. it has no API for important core 
functionality like checkout, create tag, ...
[2] The separation of reusable core functionality from UI stuff is not 
very nice.

For me that always led to duplicating a lot of code and introducing 
unnecessary UI dependencies. I'd really wish that in e4 more attention 
would be paid to providing useful functionality through convenient APIs 
that are UI independent as much as the functionality allows for.

Cheers
/Eike