Re: River and Backward Compatibility

Dan Creswell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.jini
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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