Am 22.02.2012 um 21:41 schrieb Germán Arduino <[email protected]>:
> > > 2012/2/22 Norbert Hartl <[email protected]> > > Am 22.02.2012 um 13:28 schrieb Germán Arduino: > >> Example: xmlrpc died before to born, worked only in 1.1.1, now I must find >> time to update it to zinc and 1.3 but with the fear that again will not work >> in 1.4. > > What are your building blocks except http and xml? If you were working on > 1.1.1 then xml parser moved quite a bit and zinc appeared on the scene. The > changes to adopt xml parser should be minimal. Zinc provides a facade that > mimicks backward compatibility. So you could have an easy start. But to be > honest the situation is soooo much better with having zinc that you might > save some time in development if you use zinc straight away. > And about 1.4: Yes, it moves a lot but zinc and xml do not. Xml is stable > since months and the change rate in zinc is also dropping. So you might > expect them to be available until...let's say...3 months from now. :) Ok, > just kidding, I think the will stay similar for quite some time. > > Norbert > > > Hi Norbert! > > Yes, I know that the situation is better with Zinc (I checked the code and > really look nice and simple to understand). I only mentioned XMLRPC as a mere > example of how the things become unusable so fast. > > Talking about this what you guys consider best, migrate XMLRPC to 1.3 or > directly to 1.4 ? > I don't think it makes a huge difference. As long as 1.4 is not to be released soon it would be better to port it to 1.3. This way people can use it. But honestly I think you develop it against zinc and xml parser. Zinc has been updated in 1.3 lately but I don't know if it is the newest stuff. Sven knows it. Norbert
