Davanum Srinivas wrote:

>Glen,
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>There's tons of stuff to do and so little time, can we please defer it
>as per others feelings?
>
>thanks,
>dims
>
>On 4/27/06, Glen Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>Eran Chinthaka wrote:
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>>>I tried to do this with Sandesha2, Policy and Axis2 in the project, in
>>>addition to Axiom. I found that this will change 242 places in 83 files.
>>>Doing this kind of non-critical refactoring is not that good, at least
>>>in the current stage.
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>>a) This kind of refactor doesn't change functionality at all - therefore
>>it's a much less intrusive/worrysome change than some kind of behavioral
>>thing which might actually affect the operation of dependent code (this
>>is just a simple rename/recompile).  What's the worry?
>>
>>b) It is much better to change this stuff before 1.0.  Yes, we'll do
>>stuff like this after 1.0 but it'll be a bit more of a pain, so I'd
>>rather get it out of the way.
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>>c) 83 files across four projects really isn't that many (were you really
>>surprised by that number?), and the tools make this kind of thing easy.
>>
>>I would much rather do this change now.  The only valid concern I can
>>see is worrying about other people's code which might already depend on
>>this API.  If we're really concerned about that (I don't think it's a
>>big deal before 1.0), we could deprecate getName() and still change all
>>the Apache code to use getURI()/getNamespaceURI() - then get rid of it
>>in 1.1 or 1.2.
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>>I'll certainly live with it if everyone else feels we should leave it, I
>>just hope that this isn't a trend towards locking down these APIs
>>forever... I guarantee we didn't get everything right the first time
>>around and would like to be able to fix things. :)  My apologies, by the
>>way, if I come across as cranky about this stuff - I don't intend to, I
>>just want things to be as good/easy/clean as they can be.
>>
>>--Glen
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+1 to defer this


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