javafx.scene.input.*Event classes construction

[Richard Bair]

On Nov 5, 2012, at 3:50 AM, Martin Sladecek <martin.sladecek at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 11/02/2012 06:41 PM, Richard Bair wrote:
>> Looks OK to me. Lets not deprecated the protected constructors though, unless there is a good reason to (even if they are more or less useless).
> Well, one good reason is that they won't stay in the API once there will be FX JSR, as I guess all deprecated methods will be removed then.

This is true, however we want to limit this usage to those cases that are absolutely necessary, as any change is bound to make it more difficult for somebody to upgrade or raises the possibility of breaking somebody in the wild, which is not something I would want to do.

> But otherwise there's no reason to deprecated them (like security or something), it just keeps the API clean IMO.

I think the reason needs to be more compelling to break developers. I'm as obsessive compulsive about API design as the next guy, but I think we need to accept a certain amount of imperfection and be doubly careful that new API is seen as being forever, unless it is well and truly broken (security, etc).

Richard