Re: [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Mar 17, 2004

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Some follow up on a discussion topic (below) from
yesterday.  The Eclipse team understands the need to target various
builds from the most recent Eclipse builds.  However, as we move closer
to the end of the 3.0 cycle it becomes increasingly important that the
various teams have the freedom to ready their code for shipping.  This
generally means deleting function which is not going to be part of the
final product.  

With that in mind, the Eclipse teams should not bend
of over backwards to maintain backward compatibility for previous *3.0
milestones*.  For example, there is no guarantee that you will be
able to use M8 to develop an M7 target.  People needing to target
M7 (or earlier), should use the appropriate build as their development
environment.  

NOTE: We remain fully committed to backward compatibility
for 2.x Eclipse and you are free to use any version of 3.0 to develop for
2.x targets or to run 2.x plugins.

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 Discussion Topics
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From Dejan:
- PDE+Runtime will stop providing backward compatibility for milestones
  older than M*-1 where * is the current milestone.