+1 Jerome
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Here is the general idea: I would like to start doing important > cleanup to oldcore project by moving aspect to xwiki-legacy and > deprecated stuff hard to move right now. > > Here are the pros: > * we will be able to move a lots of deprecated classes like the old > event system and some others to xwiki-legacy. It's very hard now > because of methods using theses APIs in XWiki class > * oldcore will be quicker to build (no aspectj build anymore) > * that way we make sure we don't use any deprecated APIs in platform > > Along with it I would also like to start separating xwiki-legacy in sub > modules. > > In details it means that there will be two xwiki-oldcore jars, the > "normal" one and the one including aspects and legacy classes. > Projects will depends on the first one and the second one will > actually be packaged with XE/XEM. And It will basically be the same > for any other project with aspect based retro-compatibility. > > You can have a look at the current state which is pretty much ready to > merge (need to update some code that is still using deprecated API) in > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/feature-legacyprojects. > Right now only oldcore have a conflicting jar package, other legacy > modules are like xwiki-legacy used to be: they just contains some > deprecated classes and bridges but they are not repackaging the non > legacy jar because it's not really needed (no aspects). There is lots > of more things to move but I would like to validate the idea and we > will move stuff later. > > WDYT ? > > here is my +1 > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
