Hi,

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/31/2009 08:39 AM, asiri (SVN) wrote:
> > Author: asiri
> > Date: 2009-12-31 08:39:16 +0100 (Thu, 31 Dec 2009)
> > New Revision: 25984
> >
> > Modified:
> >     contrib/sandbox/xwiki-officepreview/pom.xml
> >
> contrib/sandbox/xwiki-officepreview/src/main/java/org/xwiki/officepreview/OfficePreviewVelocityBridge.java
> >
> contrib/sandbox/xwiki-officepreview/src/main/java/org/xwiki/officepreview/internal/OfficePreviewVelocityContextInitializer.java
> > Log:
> > [misc] Changing all platform dependencies to 2.1-SNAPSHOT version.
> >
> > * This will make it possible to use xwiki-officepreview with XE 2.1.x
> versions.
> >
> > * Downside is that xwiki-officepreview will not be able to preview Office
> 2007 documents (support for which was added in xwiki-officeimporter 2.2M1).
>
> Why make it compatible with 2.1.x, when it comes with the price of
> reduced functionality? From what I see in the commit, you switched to
> older APIs that are deprecated in 2.2, which means that a new module
> will be released with deprecated code already, and at some later time it
> will be harder to migrate, once more code is written.
>

We had a problem with a client project which was using 2.1 XE. So I changed
dependencies to 2.1-SNAPSHOT to make this preview feature work with it.
Since this was on sandbox I didn't worry much. But yes, this module should
be targeting 2.2-SNAPSHOT instead.

- Asiri


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