Hi, +1 on the Spring deprecation with caution.
Regards, Quan Vào Th 2, 27 thg 11, 2023 vào lúc 14:30 Benoit TELLIER < btell...@apache.org> đã viết: > +1 on my side. > > I agree deprecating Spring implementation in James as of 3.9.0 and drop > it afterward. > > On 24/11/2023 17:30, Matthieu Baechler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had a hack session with Benoit today and the sentence "this would > break Spring" came many times along the day. > > > > As I'm less active on James than I used to be, I must admin I have no > idea how popular the Spring version of James is nowadays. > > > > However, what strikes me when I hack on James is how the size of the > project and its legacy makes it so slow to make progress. > > > > We did some deprecation and removal in the past but we have been > conservative about that. > > > > I would like to argue that being conservative to preserve existing users > may actually prevents from attracting new ones. Moreover, it probably also > prevents new developers to involve as they are quickly overwhelmed. > > > > So, what would you think about removing more aggressively features and > modules, starting with the Spring support? > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- Matthieu Baechler > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org > >
