--- On Fri, 2/19/10, Adam Heath <doo...@brainfood.com> wrote: > From: Adam Heath <doo...@brainfood.com> > Subject: Re: Discussion: New package org.ofbiz.base.types > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 8:56 PM > Adam Heath wrote: > > Adrian Crum wrote: > >> In the org.ofbiz.base.util package there are > interfaces and classes that don't really belong there - they > are data types, not utility classes. It would be nice if we > could create a new package to contain basic data types: > org.ofbiz.base.types. The new package would contain things > like: Appender, DateRange, Factory, Range, ComparableRange, > TimeDuration, etc. > >> > >> The org.ofbiz.base.util package could be > (informally) limited to classes that follow the utility > class pattern (only static methods, private constructor, > etc). > >> > >> What do you think? > > > > org.ofbiz.base.lang > > Where ever they get moved to, you need to check for classes > that > existed in a previous release, and make certain they still > exist, and > just extend the classes that were copied to the new > location. Then, > add deprecation to the old versions.
I probably wouldn't do that. I understand what you're getting at, but it adds unnecessary code and complexity to the project. Anyone wanting to upgrade from a release who used the affected classes could do a simple search and replace on the import statements. Things like this have been moved around before.
