+1

Caleb

On 01/08/2012 06:10 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu 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.
> 
> 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.

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