On 2010-02-12, at 1:15 PM, Ray Cromwell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Scott Blum <sco...@google.com> wrote:
>> - I dislike the whole transition period followed by having to forcibly >> update all linkers, unless there's a really compelling reason to do so. > > In general, I'd agree, but the number of linkers in the wild appears > to be small, this may be a case of trying to preserve an API that only > 5 or 10 people in the world are using. +1. I've written a handful of custom linkers (including one in the public gwt-firefox-extension project), but I'm used to updating them between GWT releases to work around subtle changes in the linker contract (ie: the evolution of hosted mode, various global variable changes, etc). I'd rather have a clean linker system that changes from version to version than an awkward one with a lot of legacy interfaces. Matt. -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
