Re: [Webmacro-devel] New RethrowableException impl..

[<Web...@St...>]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Keats Kirsch wrote:

| I'll try to take a look at this soon -- though probably not for 2.0.

why not?

|
| This is one of the few places where maintaining 1.3 compatibility is a
| pain.

I don't get it???

The whole point of my version is that it works with all java versions that
have the slightest amount of introspection abilities, which also
constitute the entire foundation on which WM is built. It fixes the
-direct- double-logging that the combo of WM and java 1.4 results in.


| I have actually done a similar introspection hack on the
| URLEncode and URLDecode methods in the TextTool to get around the
| annoying deprecation messages.  There is probably a slight amount of
| overhead incurred by this, so I haven't decided whether to commit it or not.

WM is _built entirely on introspection_. I don't get your concerns?

|
| At some point we should cut 1.3 loose.

I think that is a really bad idea. My mantra is to keep at least 2 "major"
versions back, and with Java, that means the minor-version (!). So when
1.6 comes (6.0), I'll start to look into the 1.4. This goes for
frameworks. WM is a framework. WM doesn't -need- any of the 1.4 features,
AT ALL. Why start to depend on any of that, because of a silly regexp?!

Regards,
Endre.