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Bug 214218 - [API] [cdt.make.core, cdt.managedbuilder.core] remove dead classes MakeProject and ManagedMakeProject
Summary: [API] [cdt.make.core, cdt.managedbuilder.core] remove dead classes MakeProjec...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: cdt-build (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Andrew Gvozdev CLA
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Blocks: 296406
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Reported: 2008-01-03 07:19 EST by Andras Varga CLA
Modified: 2010-02-17 14:43 EST (History)
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Description Andras Varga CLA 2008-01-03 07:19:49 EST 
Build ID: M20070921-1145, CDT 4.0.1

MakeProject and ManagedMakeProject are not referenced anywhere in the whole CDT. They seem to be dead classes left over from CDT2/3. Would be best to remove them (they cause confusion for readers).
Comment 1 Doug Schaefer CLA 2008-01-04 10:59:21 EST 
I do believe these are there for backwards compatability. There are some ISVs in the community using these. I think...
Comment 2 Andras Varga CLA 2008-01-05 04:49:06 EST 
What can these classes be possibly used for, if they have absolutely no connection to the rest of the CDT? If any ISV code ever relied on them, it's no longer functional I'm sure...

As for backwards compatibility: I may be wrong, but isn't it the official policy that minor releases have to be backward compatible, but major releases may break APIs? Like all Eclipse 3.x must be backward compatible with 3.0, but Eclipse 4.0 is allowed to be totally different (in theory). So changing things from CDT 4.x to 5.0 is supposed to be OK.
Comment 3 Andrew Gvozdev CLA 2010-02-10 12:39:10 EST 
MakeProject and ManagedMakeProject are included as extensions in plugin.xml (extension point org.eclipse.cdt.core.CProject). These extensions are used in CConfigBasedDescriptorManager. I suppose it might be possible to use them somehow. I added comments to get the readers hopefully less confused.