Re: River and Backward Compatibility

Hi Mark,

Point taken; I have not really been in touch with Apache River
site during last few months. Also, I am reasonably sure that
members will take enough care to retain 'backward compatibility'
(to whatever extent _possible_ and _meaningful_) while transporting
the software and community to 'Apache' way of doing things. So, I have
no issues there.

The essential point I am trying to make is that we must strive
for making the technology more acceptable. Increased ease of installation
and ease of running will go a long way to bring
this about. Now, that JavaSpaces is an Apache project, I believe
these will happen in keeping with the way other mainstream Apache
projects work. I am looking forward to that.

My 0.5 cents!

Nirmalya



>FWIW I agree with the above and I don't know whether you are subscribed
>to river-dev, but I believe because these discussions now take place in
>3 mostly unconnected mailing lists it is easy to get the wrong
impressions.
>
>So far I see no single sign there is the (future) intention of 'forking'
>and leaving API backward compatibility by any of the committers of
>River, except for those things (com.sun.jini.* to org.apache.*) we have
>to do in the future and which have some nasty ripple effects.
>
>Backwards compatibility can mean a lot of things, for some it is only
>related to the API, some include layout of a distribution or JAR file in
>their definition and it depends a lot on the typical use of the JTSK
>distribution. So although I think we get the essence when people say
>"keeping backward compatibility is a necessity" that statement alone
>can render void in discussions around modifications.
>--
>Mark
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