The whole gest of the discussion is to remove the constructor change.
It hasn't been decided yet, but the future for the constructor change
seems grim.

Martijn

On 3/14/07, Stefan Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Al Maw wrote
> >I don't want to do any of A, B or C.
>
> I am not a developer of wicket and it's completely up to yours how you do it, 
> but why not the following way:
>
> 1. Keep Wicket 2 and do the constructor change there. Now you have a java 1.4 
> branch (wicket 1.x) and a java 5 branch (wicket 2.0 or call the thing wicket 
> 1.5 or whatever). The very most of Wicket 2 users will not have big trouble 
> to change the constructor. Do the packet name change in 2.0. It's easy to 
> replace "wicket...." with "org.apache.wicket..."
>
> 2. Create a branch from 2.0 and call it 1.4. Remove all generic stuff. So you 
> have a Java 1.4 version with classic constructor and without generics but the 
> code is equivalent to 2.0
>
> 3. Now you have two branches that are based on the same codeline and 
> backporting from 2.0 to 1.4 is easy. Create new features in wicket 2 and 
> backport them (just drop the generics and add some type casts) to 1.4.
>
> 4. You can release current 1.3 as a beta and release it soon as it is.
>
> Stefan Lindner
>
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