Re: [Exist-development] Problem with new permissions stuff...

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

On 13 June 2011 16:24, Andrzej Jan Taramina <an...@ch...> wrote:
> Adam:
>
>> The XML-RPC API may have changed, personally I am not that concerned
>> about backwards compatibility here because I would rather suggest that
>> you use the same version of the client and the server together.
>
> I would love to....but the attribute replication bug I reported over a month ago is still present,
> and is precluding us from upgrading our remote systems to a more recent release.  I had hoped that
> Wolfgangs recent fixes for the optimizer would fix this bug, but unfortunately they haven't.
>
> So that means we now need to keep multiple versions of the exist distribution around and select the
> correct one based on the version of the server code we are accessing remotely.  That is a real PITA
> from a management perspective.
>
>> Of course, you are welcome to make suggestions for fixes to the code
>> which will allow the current and previous behaviours to co-exist.
>
> Very helpful...thanks. ;-(

Its not that I am being unhelpful here, its that we have different
perspectives and responsibilities. My perspective is that I am not
concerned with backwards compatibility in the XML-RPC API and believe
that that will be fine for the majority of users. Your perspective is
that of a user that would prefer to see XML-RPC backward compatibility
because its difficult inside your project.

Also we are both quite busy people, so I tend to focus on what is
important to me. Maintaing backwards compatibility in the XML-RPC API
is not important to me personally, I am not personally interested in
it and no one is paying me to do that. Conversely, I am sure you focus
on what is important to you... So if this is very important to you,
then I also know that you have the necessary programming skills to
look into this yourself and propose or contribute a fix (if one is
possible).

Dont get me wrong, I would love to have the resources to take every
sensible suggestion on-board and spend time working on everything for
free for everyone, but I just dont have the resources at my disposal.

>
> --
> Andrzej Taramina
> Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
> http://www.chaeron.com
>



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