On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:10 AM, 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. Converter already exists but perfect conversion is neer to impossible so I don't think we can really see this as a real solution. Same as Denis, no need for any target IMO. Lets just remove it as soon as it's possible to install and use it as pure extension. > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
