Re: [gwt-contrib] Future of Renderable and PotentialElement?

2014-07-07 Thread Colin Alworth
PotentialElement seems to be one of those ghost features that was never finished, or at least never correctly documented, so might as well be half done: EXPERIMENTAL and subject to change. Do not use this in production code. We've never used it, and I've only encouraged people to stay away from

Re: [gwt-contrib] Future of Renderable and PotentialElement?

2014-07-07 Thread Jens
From an outsider's perspective, this is not only unfinished code, but probably abandoned since it has been left unfinished for so long. If it isn't going to be finished/maintained, it should be deprecated, wait a version and remove it, otherwise it should be 'completed'. Another option

Re: [gwt-contrib] Future of Renderable and PotentialElement?

2014-07-07 Thread Stephen Haberman
The point was more about Orkut announcement doesn't change anything and cannot effect the decision from our perspective; as long as the system is running we need to take care of it. Right, sorry...I thought that the annoucement was exactly that: it would no longer be running, soon (end of

Re: [gwt-contrib] Future of Renderable and PotentialElement?

2014-07-07 Thread 'Goktug Gokdogan' via GWT Contributors
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Stephen Haberman stephen.haber...@gmail.com wrote: The point was more about Orkut announcement doesn't change anything and cannot effect the decision from our perspective; as long as the system is running we need to take care of it. Right, sorry...I

Re: [gwt-contrib] Future of Renderable and PotentialElement?

2014-07-07 Thread Stephen Haberman
My point was more about, don't think Orkut announcement as we can't delete it now as Orkut is no more; I might have misinterpreted that. Cool, that makes sense. Maybe you can give us a heads up when Orkut is gone from the Google repo, and then we can revisit PotentialElement's future. I

Re: [gwt-contrib] Future of Renderable and PotentialElement?

2014-07-06 Thread 'Goktug Gokdogan' via GWT Contributors
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Thomas Broyer t.bro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Googlers, AFAIK, PotentialElement and Renderable were an experiment contributed by the team at Orkut. Now that Orkut is closing its doors, what will happen of that feature? Even Orkut closing the doors, it doesn't

Re: [gwt-contrib] Future of Renderable and PotentialElement?

2014-07-06 Thread 'Goktug Gokdogan' via GWT Contributors
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Stephen Haberman stephen.haber...@gmail.com wrote: Even Orkut closing the doors, it doesn't mean their code is going away anytime soon :) You're killing me, Goktug. The backwards compatibility knife had already pierced my heart, and this just shimmied it

[gwt-contrib] Future of Renderable and PotentialElement?

2014-07-04 Thread Thomas Broyer
Hi Googlers, AFAIK, PotentialElement and Renderable were an experiment contributed by the team at Orkut. Now that Orkut is closing its doors, what will happen of that feature? Is the experiment successful and should it be promoted? Or is it a failure and we should remove it to simplify the