Stef, Reading this is encouraging. I have not forgotten about 1.4, I have simply been heavily distracted. SIXX is a concern, as I built a lot on top of it and (I *think*) need to get it loaded in order to evaluate Fuel vs. it. XML parsers are a big part of life for SIXX. Regardless of any change I might make, SIXX should be in the image to load "legacy" data (from last month<g>).
I will try again soon. Bill ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Stéphane Ducasse [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Netstyle experience (was Do not feed the trolls) On Feb 22, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote: > > 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. Exactly. Doru got **all** the moose tools in 1.4 and some of them like glamour rely a lot on UI changes. I doubt that xmlrpc got any impacted on Morphic change. We do not change XML (but the XML maintainers did) and Zinc is just much much much better than the old system so it should be not difficult to adapt especially if you ask. Stef
