David E Jones wrote:
On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Tim Ruppert wrote:
As an alternative to changing this Adrian, maybe you could just put
some javadoc on the method that explains why someone might NOT want
to use it. Then you'd get the best of both worlds - both the
documentation AND the help.
I did better than that - I deprecated it:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1361
The clients of Hotwax Media would be better served if its programmers
spent more time writing well crafted code, and less time defending
inferior code.
Aside from the way this is phrased, the problem I have with this is
that it's a dangerous notion.
Around 90% of what is in OFBiz is there because a client needed it.
That is THE BEST test we have for whether something is needed/wanted in
the real world or not. Everything else is just speculative. Not that
clients always have the best of ideas (it's all of our job to help with
that), but this is the best "litmus test" (if you will) for what makes
sense in the real world, which is after all what we're trying to
provide for with this project.
-David
I used bad judgement in that final remark. I offer my apologies to the folks at
Hotwax.
-Adrian
