>> What's the problem with supporting older clients? The problem is that the older clients are severely flawed. This even includes the 1.x DeviceMap releases. They jumbled device, client, and operating system detection into 1. So we have a mix of attributes, some of which are correct, some are infereed, and some are completely wrong. So I for one have no interest into supporting these clients. Any improvements or new features should be put into the 2.0 clients.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Reza, > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Reza Naghibi <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...The other direction, which is the direction I supported, is moving > away > > from all the above clients and starting fresh with a 2.0 framework of a > > client specification.... > > What's the problem if you (and whoever wants to join) start work on > that and others continue supporting "older" clients? > > IMO both activities can very much happen in parallel, it's not > uncommon for Apache projects to have multiple somewhat independent > modules, each with their own release cycles. > > As per the original charter of this project, what's most important IMO > is people agreeing to maintain a common device data set - the clients > might be just icing on the cake. > > -Bertrand >
