In general, a solution is to have the old implementation wrap the new one
and log some deprecation message.
So you can have a {{workspaces}} macro that calls the {{wikis}} macro and
also notifies the user somehow that the macro is deprecated.
Hope this helps,
Marius
On Oct 24, 2013 1:48 PM, "Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau" <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have two jira issues that I need to fix for 5.3:
> * http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9558 - Rename {{workspaces /}} gadget
> to {{wikis /}}
> * http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9491 - Rename
> "WorkspaceInformationPanel" to "WikiInformationPanel"
>
> The implementation is very trivial. In both cases I just rename a document,
> and in one case I only change the field "name" of the WikiMacro.
>
> But how do we handle upgrade?
> A: If someone has used the {{workspaces /}} macro in her content, she will
> not see the expected result anymore.
> B: If WorkspaceInformationPanel is used in a layout, should we
> automatically update this layout to use WikiInformationPanel?
>
> Do we consider we should let the user fix this issues herself, or should we
> provide an automatic solution to that? If so, how could we do?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Louis-Marie.
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