Re: [eclipse-dev] Draft Eclipse 3.0 plan is available

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just recently observed that components
such as GEF are only able to introduce incompatible changes to downstream
clients on the same schedule as the platform.  We are effectively
locked into the platform's release strategy.  This is just an observation,
not a complaint.  We don't anticipate breaking compatibility any time
soon :-)

As Eclipse becomes increasingly more
popular, the likelihood of users installing 2 or more products which are
built on GEF, EMF, or some other "middle" technology grows.  This
means that for any set of compatible platform releases, GEF (and other
shared plugins) must also be compatible.

In a way, it will be a good thing if
Eclipse 3.0 is *not* backwards compatible.

-Randy