Hi Sergiu,
On Jun 7, 2012, at 12:51 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Most of the devs know about the new xwiki-rendering engine which provides the
> support for the new xwiki/2.x syntaxes, and the old Radeox-based rendering
> engine which provides support for the xwiki/1.0 syntax, but I wonder who
> knows about the Oro-based wikiwiki engine that provides support for an even
> older undocumented wiki syntax? That one has been in the oldcore sources
> before I came in contact with XWiki, and it has been disabled for a very long
> time.
>
> One thing that we still use from that basic rendering engine is the support
> for {pre}{/pre} code escaping, and that one will have to be preserved even if
> we remove all the rest.
>
> The advantages of removing it include:
> - less ancient, unused, buggy code
> -- thus slightly less PermGen memory required and faster startup
> - one less Oro dependency (a long term goal is to remove Oro and ECS from our
> dependencies)
> - fewer WTFs from people stumbling over that code
>
> Does anybody know of any users of that syntax? Is anybody still running 0.1.x
> versions?
+1 but there's the risk of introducing errors in our rewritten pre support so
we would need to be careful.
<off thread>
I'd personally like to go further and remove the oldcore xwiki syntax 1.0 part
completely and move it to legacy modules (which means still available for our
end users).
List of what would need to be done before we can move it to legacy:
- Some cleanup to use the new velocity module in a few places instead of the
old rendering for interpretText. I can think of templates and translations.
There are probably more places.
- Move our 21 pages from the stats app to xwiki/2.1 syntax
- Move XWiki.OfficeImporter and XWiki.WatchListMessage to xwiki/2.1 syntax
- anything else?
</off thread>
Thanks
-Vincent
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