On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
Yes. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
