Re: [ANNOUNCE] Plan for disruptive changes to Jackrabbit WebDAV library

[Julian Reschke <ju...@gmx.de>]

On 2016-10-26 15:13, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> context: <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2406>
>
> Summary: we want to get rid of our dependency of httpclient 3.*
> (<http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/>), which as been end-of-lifed
> quite some time ago.
>
> This will affect our public API, which extends classes from it.
>
> The current plan is to add a new set of APIs (probably based on
> HttpClient 4.5.x) in the next stable Jackrabbit release 2.14, planned to
> be released in Spring 2017. At that point, we'll also deprecate the old
> classes.
>
> Later on, we would *remove* the httpclient 3.x dependency and the old
> classes -- the plan would be to do that in the subsequent stable
> release: Jackrabbit 2.16, which could come out in Spring 2018.
>
> At that point, users of the old API can:
>
> - either continue using Jackrabbit 2.14.*, or
>
> - update their own code to work with Jackrabbit 2.16.*.
>
> Feedback appreciated -- either here, or in
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2406>.
>
> Best regards, Julian

Hi there, here's an update:

1) I have added individual tasks to 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2406>. Most of them are 
supposed to happen before we cut 2.14. The actual removal of the 
HttpClient3 code would happen when we release 2.15.0.

2) For those interested, the actual work is happening in 
<https://github.com/reschke/jackrabbit/tree/JCR-2406>.

Best regards, Julian