Re: [aspectj-dev] AspectJ Custom Attributes

["Wes Isberg" <wes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eugene,

That's more than your personal .57 rubles - the long-term 
implications *are* critical.

Right now, the backwards compatibility we sign up to is stated here:

  http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/doc/next/devguide/compatibility.html

It doesn't include promising other tools that we won't change
our bytecode format.  Fair warning is the best path at present.

Thanks,
Wes

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "AspectJ developer discussions" <aspectj-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, Oct-20-2005 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [aspectj-dev] AspectJ Custom Attributes
>
> Wes,
> 
>    I believe it is secure to say that AspectJ will be quite popular. 
> So, one should take a serious look at the long term aspects of this 
> issue untill it will be too late to get rid of the old luggage because 
> it would affect backward compatibility with other tools...
> 
>    Just my 0.02 cents.
> 
>    Eugene
> 
> 
> Wes Isberg wrote:
> > This is a great discussion but I wouldn't consider it for the initial
> > AspectJ 5 release, not least because Andy said so *smile*.  It might
> > also be good to see the population of conflicts/clients before 
> adopting 
> > an approach.  I'm sure ASM won't be the only one. 
> > 
> > Wes
> > 
> > 
> >>------------Original Message------------
> >>From: Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>
> >>To: "AspectJ developer discussions" <aspectj-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Date: Thu, Oct-20-2005 10:54 AM
> >>Subject: Re: [aspectj-dev] AspectJ Custom Attributes
> >>
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>   It is good to see such discussion here and I would like to add few 
> 
> >>comments.
> ...
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