Marc Portier wrote:
Marc Salvetti wrote:
Do you have an idea of how long before the refactoring is released ?
I was planning to put what I have up on svn this week (although current
agenda might make that slide into weekend or early next week)
Just to get expectation managament right:
- strictly speaking 'refactoring' isn't the appropriate word, since my
current angle of attack is NOT maintaining any of the current
functionality...
Vive la revolution !
- more bluntly: it's in current form a drastic step back in terms of
functionality
Ok, let's get this straight:
1) the Fins committers aknowledged the current codebase was not suitable
as a foundation for the whole JFreeChart functionality to be included
(during these years, JFreeChart has changed *a lot*).
2) Marc came up with his "massive refactoring" proposal, which would
take some time to bear some fruits, but will make easier to extend Fins.
3) There is another proposal from Antonio Fiol Bonnìn, using a more
elaborate approach involving the extraction of information from the
Javadoc of JFreeChart, but I haven't heard recent news of Antonio's
proposal.
- so it's pretty much a 'from scratch' go at it in separate packages
next to the existing stuff. As soon as this matures, gets
feature-complete, and we create some transition xsl's / or at least
transition guides we can get into deprecating the existing approach.
Yep: the current user base deserves a transition path.
(and consider subscribing to the list and joining in on the fun)
Did I forget this exortation ? My bad... but here you are: we badly need
new blood in Fins ! Join Fins and see the world (ahem... that was for
the US Navy, but you got the idea).
Regards,
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Luca Morandini
www.lucamorandini.it
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