The way this has been handled in the past has been to make the method (or class) non-public, so it’s not visible in, say, javadoc, and then have the build bytecode-patch it to be public so it’s binary compatible.
At least I know we did it for some classes in openide.aww, because I deleted a non-public, unused class there once and found out the hard way. Don’t know if we ever did that for methods. Jarda might. -Tim On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 5:01 PM Łukasz Bownik <lukasz.bow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Vicrims of popularity? ;) > > On Tue, May 10, 2022, 1:56 PM Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Also some of the platform modules are in other exotic IDE-s like > > JDeveloper. > > > > On 5/10/22 13:38, antonio wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > You're welcome! That's a way of building trust :-). > > > > > > Some of the committers around (not me, though) use NetBeans as a > > > platform for building applications, or to build plugins, so it's > > > always a good idea to ask in the mailing list when suggesting an API > > > change. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Antonio > > > > > > El 10/5/22 a las 22:17, Łukasz Bownik escribió: > > >> Thank You for explaining the process and reasoning behind it. > > >> It is also good to know the community's attitude towards backward > > >> compatibility. > > >> > > >> I'll close the current PRs and try to spoon feed changes while > > >> optimising > > >> for "diff-readability" until we build some trust. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > -- http://timboudreau.com
