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Architecture Council/Meetings/API Deprecation 20080119

Meeting Title: AC Call on API Deprecation
Date & Time: Thursday January 22, 2009 at 1700 UTC / 0900 SFO / 1200 Ottawa / 1800 Berlin
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Notes

Reasoning

  • Eclipse APIs become ever more complicated and duplicated, making it harder and harder to understand.
  • For e4 at least, we should make it simpler to code against Eclipse. We should get rid of unnecessary burden to make ourselves ready for the future.
  • Consider other technologies:
    • Deprecation in Java
    • Evolution of glibc

Questions

  • Should the deprecation rules be the same for all projects, or different from project to project?
  • By what channels can the Community be informed about deprecating API?
  • How long does deprecated API need to stay around? Does it depend from case to case?

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