Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact avalon-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list avalon-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 77951 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2001 11:56:31 -0000 Received: from e21.nc.us.ibm.com (32.97.136.227) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 25 Feb 2001 11:56:31 -0000 Received: from southrelay02.raleigh.ibm.com (southrelay02.raleigh.ibm.com [9.37.3.209]) by e21.nc.us.ibm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA85826 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 06:51:50 -0600 Received: from d04nm301.raleigh.ibm.com (d04nm301.raleigh.ibm.com [9.67.228.166]) by southrelay02.raleigh.ibm.com (8.11.2/NCO v4.95) with ESMTP id f1PBuJI32348 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 06:56:19 -0500 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: FW: avalon moved. To: "Avalon Development" X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.4 June 8, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Sam Ruby" Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 06:53:06 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D04NM301/04/M/IBM(Release 5.0.6 |December 14, 2000) at 02/25/2001 06:56:19 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N Federico Barbieri wrote: > > > kewl - keep it coming. A lot of the duplicity stuff in Avalon though > > is done to support backwards compatability in some form or another. > > > > I know and that's the main pain! I don't want to repackage and > rearchitect everything nicely and screw all code. But deprecation in > this situation is such a pain! So we could go for a 4.0 proposal while > tuning the 3.1x branch. There is no harm in removing interfaces that nobody uses. Helping people convert, though patches, benefits everyone. Example: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/gump/2001-02-22/jakarta-james.html Such efforts can also help you get people to move up to 4.0 quicker. - Sam Ruby