[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Mark the xwiki/1.0 syntax as deprecated

[Vincent Massol]

On Jan 9, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Denis Gervalle wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 00:10, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu at xwiki.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi devs,
>> 
>> Since a long time ago, the xwiki/1.0 syntax has been deprecated in favor
>> of the new rendering engine and the 2.x syntaxes, but this has never been
>> declared deprecated formally. We should:
>> 
>> * mark the syntax as deprecated in the UI (like 2.1 was marked
>> experimental in the syntax choice dropdown)
>> * deprecate classes and methods that deal only with the old syntax
>> * push more for migrating all documents to the 2.1 syntax; the biggest
>> troublemaker is the statistics application
>> 
>> Here's my +1.
>> 
> 
> +1
> 
> 
>> We should also decide on a timeline for the complete removal of the 1.0
>> syntax. Is that something we want to do? Provided we manage to migrate all
>> the official documents and some major contributed applications during the
>> 4.x cycle, is XWiki 5.0 a good target? We should package the support for
>> xwiki/1.0 as an optional extension installable using the extension manager,
>> so that people can upgrade from older versions. Or we could package just a
>> syntax migrator that can be used for an automatic conversion to a newer
>> syntax, without actually providing rendering support for it.
> 
> 
> As soon as we are satisfied with the extension manager, and installing the
> 1.0 syntax could be done simply using it, couldn't we simply properly
> repackage extensions using the 1.0 syntax to depends on it ? This could
> permit to remove it earlier from the distribution.

That's a good idea too. This is true more generally: we need to start adding required dependencies to extensions.

Thomas, do we already have an XObject for dependencies on e.x.o? Does it already work?

Thanks
-Vincent