If we remove old css completely, that means we will force auto-conversion
by the time of upgrade to 2.8. That will the make the upgrade unnecessarily
harder (vs. upgrading 2.8 and choosing the time to the conversion if
necessary). Besides, if they haven't upgraded and using auto-conversion,
that is still not forcing migration, just leaves them with
not-as-well-tested support of old css.
Given that this is not buying as much, following the original plan to
provide a clean transition version looks better to me at the moment. We can
remove it all together after the 2.8 release.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Jens <[email protected]> wrote:

> I started migration today on a 300 KLOC project and all CSS files had been
> converted without any major issue using the Css2Gss tool. The only exotic
> issue I had was a NullPointerException for *.css files that do not have any
> content:
> https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=9131
>
> After conversion I was a bit annoyed updating all the @Source annotations
> still pointing to *.css files. You can't blindly run a global string
> replace of .css -> .gss so this took some time.
> Also I did not add any gss=true attributes to UiBinder files because we
> simply have a lot of them and I don't want to do that work. I assume that
> this attribute is not needed anymore anyways once the GssResourceGenerator
> is enabled by default for UiBinder <ui:style> elements.
>
> Currently we run the app with CssResource.enableGss = true and 
> CssResource.conversionMode
> = strict and do not have any issues. Overall it took less than an hour to
> achieve that state.
>
>
> So I think I would prefer the second option (delete the property and make
> GSS the default everywhere) but it would be nice if GWT would prefer a
> matching *.gss file for any *.css file referenced in @Source annotations
> (may the css file exist or not on disk) and print a warning in which
> ClientBundles that occurred. That way people could execute the Css2Gss tool
> and can start using 2.8. Deleting css files and cleaning up @Source
> annotations can then be done afterwards in smaller steps.
>
>
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