Re: [eclipse-pmc] API spec change/clarification

[Martin Aeschlimann <martin_aeschlimann@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The requested change is breaking JDT.UI
at several places. Since 1.0, this API returns the install location that
we used to find for example the Javadoc command. 
A search for usages of IVMInstall.getInstallLocation()
shows that also the ANT plugin uses this API to find tools.jar.

Martin

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+1

Darin Wright/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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Debug would like approval for the API specification change/clarification,
as described in the following bug: 

       https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182414

We are working a feature to allow Installed JREs to be derived from .ee
definition files (bug 181026). In order to complete this feature, we need
to allow VM install locations to be represented as files as well as directories.
Until now, the javadoc specified the install location was a directory (home
directory for a JRE). This is a binary compatible API change. The javadoc
would be enhanced to clarify that the java.io.File describing an install
location can be a file or directory. 

RISK: Minimal: 
Code that accessed the vm install location should not need to change (it
still works on java.io.Files). However, existing code could encounter error
conditions (for example, retrieving files from a directory will not work
when the file is not a directory). Code needed to be resilliant to such
conditions in the past, so this should have minimal effect on clients.

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