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[mylyn-dev] Jdom & Rome
  • From: Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:45:03 +0200
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Hello Mylyn Mighty Commiters,

At the beginning of the year I have opened the bug
398102: adopt latest jdom
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=398102
It was followed by a Fedora one:

Bug 977773 - please update jdom to 2.X
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977773

This looked like a fairly easy migration, but comment "validate that
Rome works with 2.0" reminded me that con.sun.syndication depends on
jdom. Unfortunately Rome smells dead, not like Eclipse, but really dead
(no website, no real work for the past couple of years), and it looks
like it is becoming a project locking mylyn dependencies.

Would it be possible to get rid of jdom & rome at all and replace them
with Java 1.6 based solutions? If this is not possible and Rome is vital
to the Mylyn, would it be possible to resurrect Rome as a part of Mylyn?

I don't want to impose anything on anybody - just to start a discussion,
because I find current situation a bit dangerous. Unmaintained
dependencies tend to break things in least appropriate moment.

Best regards,
Chris

-- 
Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat



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