Alexander Klimetschek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The question is, should the 1.5 upgrade changes in configuration files >> or not? I would rather opt for a smoother upgrade with more backwards >> compatibility, but I acknowledge that there are good reasons why we >> might want people to update their configurations. WDYT? > > +1 for being backwards compatible in a minor 1.x release > > In the SecurityManager case I would let the parser allow the old > config, use defaults for the new required component, and log a big > warning on the console that this old config is deprecated. We can > really remove it with Jackrabbit 2.0.
+1 regards marcel