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Re: Is our objective for 2.0 too ambitious?

Gilles Scokart

2008-04-16

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On 16/04/2008, Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@(protected):
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Xavier Hanin <xavier.hanin@(protected):
>
> > So, what do you think? Shall we reconsider our objective for 2.0,
> > and retarget some of the issues for a 2.0.x?
>
> Comments from the peanut gallery:
>
> There are certain categories of bugs that you can't really re-target,
> those that would require API (both Java and XML) changes or those that
> are critical and break existing use-cases of Ivy 1.x.
>

+1 for the XML, but -1 for the java API.
We discussed already in the past about 'publishing' our API [1]. I
think the API is now a way too complexe, and cleaning it would
requires a lot of effort. I think we should warn our users that the
API may (and I hope will) change in the futur

[1] http://markmail.org/message/dm54bglzuvrsgddm

> Then there are "nice-to-have" features or "can-be-worked-around" bugs.
>
> You'll probably never get to any final release without accepting that
> it will ship with issues of the later category. Fix those of the
> first category and call the result final, probably is the best way
> forward.
>
> Stefan
>
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