Adrian Crum wrote: > Who suggested removing them? They are being moved to a different package. As > I already said - an existing installation can do a simple search and replace > to accommodate that. Plus, as I have also pointed out, changes like this have > been done in the past with no regard to release version compatibility.
Just because it wasn't done correctly in the past does not mean it should be done incorrectly now. > So, yes - this is a thread hijack. What I am suggesting has been done many > times before with no warning or discussion, but now it has become an issue. > Why should the change I'm proposing follow some new rule? Are you going to > make that rule retroactive? How many files in the trunk have been > changed/moved/deleted in a backwards-incompatible way since the R 9.04 branch? As ofbiz gets bigger, and used by more people, we *will* have to be considerate of upgrades between major versions. > If you want to make new rules, then fine - start a new thread for that. And > make sure the new rules apply to the next release, not to the trunk. Um, the trunk is the next release. Why can't you see that? > For now, it would help if we could stay on subject. This is on subject, you just don't see it.
