The general "good form" policy as I understand it is to deprecate APIs which are going to go away, leave them for at least one release cycle, and then drop them. I totally agree that if a change is going to happen, we should just do it - but "do it" should include one release of deprecation, in general, unless it's an API that really doesn't get a lot of use.

So +1 to deprecate these APIs now (for 1.1.1) then get rid of them in 1.2.

--Glen

David Illsley wrote:
If that's the general policy, I agree with Sanjiva.

David

On 18/12/06, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think we should not make an API change in 1.1.1. If it's 1.2 that's ok.

-- dims

On 12/18/06, David Illsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess now is the time for me to ask what the Apache WS project
> stance on deprecating APIs is?
>
> David
>
> On 18/12/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What's the point of extending it like this? If its just to avoid
> > changing the code then I don't think it makes sense - its cleaner to
> > change it and be done with it.
> >
> > Sanjiva.
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 09:42 +0000, David Illsley wrote:
> > > I'm +1 for reusing the code though I'm not sure we can remove the
> > > o.a.axis2.util classes as users might have dependencies on them.
> > >
> > > Can we make the classes in o.a.axis2.util empty and extend the ones in Axiom?
> > > David
> > >
> > > On 18/12/06, Thilina Gunarathne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > Axis2/modules/kernel/o.a.a.util.Base64 &
> > > > Axis2/modules/kernel/o.a.a.util.UUIDGenerator duplicates the same
> > > > classes in axiom-api/o.a.axiom.om.util..
> > > >
> > > > We are using the classes in axis2 for databinding, rahas, etc.. Any
> > > > reasons for having the duplicate. IMHO we should get rid of the
> > > > duplication if there aren't any pressing need..
> > > >
> > > > Worst thing is I'm seeing some improvements or may be bug fixes done
> > > > only to the UUIDGen in Axis2.
> > > >
> > > >
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