River and Backward Compatibility

Following Jim's advice, I'm pushing this discussion over to our other lists.

Any thoughts from the community on how much backward compatibility is
desirable in the first releases from River much appreciated.

On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Dan Creswell wrote:
> Gregg Wonderly wrote:
>> Bob Scheifler wrote:
>>> Gregg Wonderly wrote:
>>>
>>>> Perhaps in view that jar layouts may change further, there might be
>>>> an official directory of deprecated jars so that documentation and
>>>> discussions can focus on the nature of those jars?
>>>
>>> Moving the existing deprecated jars (jini-core.jar, jini-ext.jar,
>>> sdm-dl.jar, sun-util.jar) could break existing scripts/etc that
>>> reference them, so if the desire is for AR1 to maintain maximum
>>> compatibility, it would seem preferable to leave them where they
>>> are.
>>
>> Your call, but my thoughts are that there will already be some
>> changes
>> involved in testing and integrating AR1, for many.  So, having to
>> change
>> some referred to directory structures, etc, may not be a big impact
>> overall.
>
> What do the rest of the user-base think about this? ^^^
>
> How much backward compatibility does everybody expect in this first
> release?
>
> Anybody out there?

Hey Dan-

My guess is that we haven't made enough substantive progress in this
(River) project yet to attract Jini users to these mailing lists.  We
certainly
have some (who seem to be generally lurking), but it will not be
(IMHO) until
we get out a release or two before 'users' will start to be very
vocal on this
list.

It might be better to ask this at jini/javaspaces-users right now.

My 2c.

-Jim

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