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BTW I guess Places should be deprecated. Nodes are used almost in core only, also in some property editors(??) in openide and scripting module, but that's just a "mirroring". Folders are deprecated already. Anyway that's not important. I guess the Places could be replaced by naming funcionality. Depends how far the naming is implemented.
Definitively deprecate all methods that are wrong/unimplementable, deprecating whole interface is possible but not necessary right now.
Done by Jesse's and Peter's separation of openide phase I and II.