Agreed, I understand the need to move classes around, but if its possible to deprecate the old class, wether it just be a copy of the new one, or a subclass of it as andrea suggests, I think we should do it.
-Justin Andrea Aime wrote: > Simone ha scritto: >> Ciao Andrea, >> I think I talked a bit about the issue you are bringing up before and >> meanwhile doing this work. >> This change MUST be done in an incompatible way if we want to have main >> NOT depending on coverage. >> Moreover, unless we want to create a circular dependecy there is no way >> to use the usual deprecation cycle, because >> if we do so, main would depend on coverage which would depend on main. > > I disagree. Keeping the same packages as before while moving > the classes from one module to the other would not have changed the API. > That is: > * move the classes, don't change package > * create the new classes in the new packages > * have the old ones extend the new ones and become empty shells to > ensure API continuity > * deprecate the old ones > * on 2.5 or lated, remove the deprecated old ones. > > Cheers > Andrea > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > > !DSPAM:1004,45d9b1a3251251194215290! > -- Justin Deoliveira The Open Planning Project http://topp.openplans.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
