What is the state of the Test Runner API/ Coverage API and Gototest API

[albilu]

quoted from a Netbeans dev : friend APIs are APIs which are not stable and therefore not public. If you want to use them anyway, you have to pretend to be a friend and use them. Since they can change from release to release, you have to do provide a build for every release
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https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/master/ide/gototest
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/master/ide/gsf.codecoverage
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/master/ide/gsf.testrunner

As those 3 APIs are very important part of a Language support module they need to be made available to allow plugin developers to work with them more smoothly.

It is now several years since those APIs are not public if i am not wrong.

I worked with them recently and didn't noticed any instability or harm to the IDE.

So what is preventing to made them public ?

[neilcsmith-net]

This discussion belongs on the dev@ mailing list. Thanks!

[albilu]

Just created a thread on the list. Thanks