On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefano Bagnara wrote: > > Noel J. Bergman ha scritto: > > > > Probably, with the newest versions of Java. Mordred is deprecated, and > > > since I don't see any reason to update mordred, it will be removed as > soon > > > as I can start work on the new stable branch. > > > I created JIRA-605 (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-605) to > > remove mordred and you replied that you was ok with deprecating it but > > not removing. It is 1.5 years ago > > As I recall, Serge and I were the ones who did the work to get DBCP into > JAMES in the first place, and after some years of running DBCP, processing > over 1 million connections per day, I am satisfied that we don't need > mordred as a backup plan anymore, so it is not worth maintaining. > > Remember: if we cannot provide a stable, reliable, production quality mail > server, every feature, bell and whistle is worthless.
This is a good example of Robert's points on modularity. If mordred was a separate project built separately, we could keep it as a binary dependency, no? -- Serge Knystautas Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com p. 301.656.5501 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
