On Jan 9, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Denis Gervalle wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 00:10, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> Since a long time ago, the xwiki/1.0 syntax has been deprecated in favor >> of the new rendering engine and the 2.x syntaxes, but this has never been >> declared deprecated formally. We should: >> >> * mark the syntax as deprecated in the UI (like 2.1 was marked >> experimental in the syntax choice dropdown) >> * deprecate classes and methods that deal only with the old syntax >> * push more for migrating all documents to the 2.1 syntax; the biggest >> troublemaker is the statistics application >> >> Here's my +1. >> > > +1 > > >> We should also decide on a timeline for the complete removal of the 1.0 >> syntax. Is that something we want to do? Provided we manage to migrate all >> the official documents and some major contributed applications during the >> 4.x cycle, is XWiki 5.0 a good target? We should package the support for >> xwiki/1.0 as an optional extension installable using the extension manager, >> so that people can upgrade from older versions. Or we could package just a >> syntax migrator that can be used for an automatic conversion to a newer >> syntax, without actually providing rendering support for it. > > > As soon as we are satisfied with the extension manager, and installing the > 1.0 syntax could be done simply using it, couldn't we simply properly > repackage extensions using the 1.0 syntax to depends on it ? This could > permit to remove it earlier from the distribution.
That's a good idea too. This is true more generally: we need to start adding required dependencies to extensions. Thomas, do we already have an XObject for dependencies on e.x.o? Does it already work? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
