Hi Elliotte, Just to clarify for everyone, the binary release distributions [1] of Xerces contain both xml-apis.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar. The nightly builds you are referring to are done by Gump and it only posts the xmlParserAPIs.jar package. When the time comes to remove xmlParserAPIs.jar we'll need to notify them of this change.
I'd imagine at the time we'd want to eliminate the xmlParserAPIs.jar package one of the developers would post a notification to the list conveying our intentions; asking if any users have any objections or concerns about this change. At that point if the community isn't prepared to move over we'd postpone removing the package, and then ask again at a later date. The package won't magically disappear. [1] http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/download.cgi On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > At 4:39 AM -0700 10/9/03, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > > >Both xml-apis.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar have the same contents. They > >currently both exist because we wanted to give users a chance to change > >their environments (CLASSPATH, etc...) without abruptly removing > >xmlParserAPIs.jar. This file is deprecated, which means users are > >encouraged to use xml-apis.jar (which is the new name for this package, > >inline with the naming convention from XML commons). Once users have been > >given enough time to switch over, xmlParserAPIs.jar will disappear in some > >future release. > > > > I notice that the nightly builds at > http://gump.covalent.net/jars/2003-10-09/xml-xerces2/ still use > xmlParserAPIs.jar but not xml-apis.jar. Perhaps it's time to switch > those over? Better yet, start providing both, with a warning to other > projects that in a month or two, xmlParserAPIs.jar will go away; so > they have time to upgrade their build files to use the new jar. --------------------------- Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
