eclipse-xtext / eclipse-xtext/xtext

Become X-Friends with Platform/JDT internal API that we use so that they can notify us when changes come up

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Description

Follow up of HTML Printer Discussion on cross project dev. see https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-eclipse/issues/530 as well

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the linked HTML Printer discussion in eclipse/xtext-eclipse#530 and this issue's context about the Platform/JDT internal API. Identify the intended X-Friends relationship and the concrete change Xtext should make; the issue is complete only when that scope and a maintainer-approved approach are defined.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
devtools
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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