Davanum Srinivas wrote: >Glen, > >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: > > >>Eran Chinthaka wrote: >> >> >>>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. >>> >>> >>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. >> >>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. >> >>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 >> >> >> > > >-- >Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/ > > > +1 to defer this
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