> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Lenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 March 2003 11:27 > To: Cactus Developers List > Subject: Backwards compatibility of the Ant tasks > > Howdy everyone, > > in the process of cleaning up the Cactus directory and package > structure, the Ant tasks that are intended to be used by users have > moved into a new package. Most prominently this is the 'runservertests' > task: > > o.a.c.ant.RunServerTestsTask > -> o.a.c.integration.ant.RunServerTestsTask > > Currently, if a user upgrades to the 1.5 stream, the <taskdefs> for this > task will need to be rewritten to match the new package. Although this > is simple to do, I think we should provide better backwards > compatibility in this regard (and I'm pretty sure that this was also in > Vincent's original proposal). > > Therefore I'd like to add add a o.a.c.ant.RunServerTestsTask class to > the integration/ant module. This class would simply extend the real > implementation, and be deprecated. Probably it should also override the > 'execute' method, so that a deprecation message is output at WARN level. > > I don't believe this is necessary for any of the other tasks. There were > the tasks "StartServerTask" and "StopServerTask" IIRC, but I have doubt > those were ever used in The Real World (tm). > > Any objections?
Nope, all good ideas. Please go ahead! Thanks -Vincent > > -chris > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
