Re: River and Backward Compatibility
Dan Creswell <[email protected]>
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Mike Morris wrote: > Dan Creswell wrote: >> 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. > > Respectfully, I have to disagree with those who have said "chuck > backwards compatibility overboard." Anybody who has a significant > deployed installation (I don't) will have nightmares at the thought. My > fear is less about compiled code than about all the deployment scripts, > permissions files, etc., that will need to get modified along the line > in a production setup (assuming, too, that I've understood the framing > of Dan's original question.) > My question was deliberately very open - I'm interested in any and all thoughts, of course views on the specifics of the compatibility debate around AR1 are more useful at this time. I've seen a lot of caveats so far relating to not being in production - would appreciate hearing from some of those that do have production deployments (I'll happily accept private email on this for those that wish to be stealthy). Best, Dan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started Community Web Site: http://jini.org jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to [email protected]