On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 17:39, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2021-08-19, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 12:01, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > > >> I didn't mean the Antlib to be backwards compatible, but rather to offer > >> it and tell people to switch over to it. It would be the first time we'd > >> remove a core feature of Ant completely, though, so we may need to > >> discuss whether there is a better migration path. We have moved some > >> source code management tool specific tasks to antlibs in the past, but > >> never a core part. > > > Would it make sense to create a "legacy" antlib for, say, JEE (EJB, JSP, > > etc) and VCS tasks + anything that has been deprecated in JDK? > > I'd only do that if it reduces maintenance burden for anybody. > Is packaging away unmaintainable code (because of third-party dependencies etc) a maintenance burden, or is it a one-off job to make clear what's legacy? There are about 60 old issues (11+ years) in Bugzilla for these tasks that would never be actualised again. Gintas
