Re: Flow control by Exception

Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:59:49 PM, Attila Szegedi wrote:
> We would be able to use it for 2.3 as well, except for the fact that  
> Jonathan is moving toward generating parsers that need Java 5 at  
> runtime (uses generics etcetera). Which, honestly, is quite a  
> defendable decision in 2009 :-)

Ah, now I remember... And too bad.

As software dependency handling today is a quite immature field, I
guess it will be a long time while the world migrates from 2.3 to 2.4.
Because, in most infrastructures either all components of the system
use 2.3.x, or all of them use 2.4.x; you can't use both at once. To
solve this, there is the possibility of renaming the project package
to org.freemarker (that would be the correct package name anyway), but
that's very painful too for obvious reasons, means the adoption of 2.4
will be slow again. But that's at least something that technically can
be handled correctly; a component either clearly depends on 2.3, or on
2.4, and they can co-exist. Of course, someone will quickly point out
that this second (correct) solution will result in the slowest
adoption...

> Attila.
>
> On 2009.02.06., at 11:55, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>
>> Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:23:37 AM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Yes, that is probably quite easy to address and I'll have a look at
>>> that in FreeCC. But note that any improvements on this will only be
>>> for 2.4.x.
>> [snip]
>>
>> Is that sure? When FreeCC will be stable/settled enough to be used for
>> 2.4-final, then can't we also use it for 2.3.x?
>>
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel Dekany

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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