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Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] Transitioning Jakarta EE to the jakarta namespace


On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 10:53, Ian Robinson <ian_robinson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Renaming stuff and then pruning it ... your P.S. made me laugh.

Where there's stuff to prune, surely the worst reason to put that off is to rename it first.

If that was all that was going on, then I would agree wholeheartedly.... but the need to support backwards and binary compatibility means there is a benefit to having a 1:1 mapping from javax to jakarta APIs.     If porting tools have to cope with renaming and pruning deprecated methods or even updating to newer APIs then they won't be fully automatic and humans will need to get involved. 

 A 1:1 mapping gives the prospect that a tool can do a rename on the code or binary and it will just work as expected without any human intervention.

cheers











 
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