Ed,
I think you are barking up a tree that is no longer occupied by a cat.
It's fine to make cross-project aware of the issue, but I think
everything meaningful to be said on the topic has now been said, with
Stephan Hermann's summary being particularly savvy...
If you think more needs to be said *and *you think that what you say
will actually sway the very people who you think should take some form
of action (which I feel makes you overly optimistic), it would be best,
to do so on the issue that you've already opened where anyone/everyone
interested in further discussions can participate too:
https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.team/issues/29
My sense is that this decision was made long ago and that no one is
obligated to make an older version of CVS continue to work in current or
future releases.
Regards,
Ed
On 04.01.2023 09:48, Ed Willink wrote:
Hi
On 03/01/2023 21:13, Stephan Herrmann wrote:
* The code change in question didn't touch any true API.
IMHO, UX is also API, albeit spelling changes / menu rationalization /
form prettifying are acceptable and sometimes desirable. The
fundamental user capability to check out a CVS project is API.
Presumably it was possible to write a program that re-used team CVS
support to check out a CVS project. The API used by this hypothetical
program is now broken. If such a program was only possible using
internal classes, then those classes constitute what I call
artificially internal functionality; internal classes that, in the
absence of a suitable Facade, users have no alternative but to use for
reasonable purposes.
Regards
Ed Willink
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