Federico Barbieri wrote: > > > kewl - keep it coming. A lot of the duplicity stuff in Avalon though > > is done to support backwards compatability in some form or another. > > > > I know and that's the main pain! I don't want to repackage and > rearchitect everything nicely and screw all code. But deprecation in > this situation is such a pain! So we could go for a 4.0 proposal while > tuning the 3.1x branch.
There is no harm in removing interfaces that nobody uses. Helping people convert, though patches, benefits everyone. Example: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/gump/2001-02-22/jakarta-james.html Such efforts can also help you get people to move up to 4.0 quicker. - Sam Ruby
