On Jun 7, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> 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.
Forgot to ask: can it be moved to legacy?
Thanks
-Vincent
> <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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