+1, not aware of any usage of that very old feature

Denis

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 15:57, Jean-Vincent Drean <[email protected]>wrote:

> +1, with the same comment.
>
> JV.
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Mortagne
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > +0, I will have to trust you on that since I don't know this feature very
> well
> >
> > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 20:53, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi devs,
> >>
> >> In the early days of XWiki, XClass definitions were stored in the
> >> database exploded into several tables, as object-relational mapping of
> >> the BaseClass and the related PropertyClasses. That code still exists,
> >> and can be enabled in the configuration.
> >>
> >> The alternative, which has been used as the default even before 1.0, is
> >> to store the class as an XML blob, since it doesn't make much sense to
> >> have the class definition available in the database as objects.
> >>
> >> Since the default has been to store the classes as XML, the old code
> >> hasn't been tested in years, and I'm not even sure it still works. I'd
> >> like to remove that code completely. This involves:
> >>
> >> - pruning several methods and if-else branches from XWikiHibernateStore
> >> - removing several class mappings, thus tables from the database (we're
> >> not going to actually delete existing tables, just that they won't be
> >> created in new installations)
> >>
> >> WDYT? Is anybody actually relying on this feature?
> >>
> >> My +1 to proceed with this cleanup.
> >> --
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