[Webtest] [dev] webtestTaskdefs.properties problem

Marc Guillemot webtest@lists.canoo.com
Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:34:26 +0200


> 
>>> Or is it possible to have multiple name in the @webtest.step javadoc?
>>> That would also solve the next problem.
>>>
>>>> Furthermore the file now contain all steps in a lowercased  version  
>>>> rather than only the 25 which have been changed. I think  that it 
>>>> is  a bad idea to introduce new "versions" of these steps.
>>>>
>>> What is the plan to move everybody to camelCased step name?
>>>
>>
>> that is not the plan: that was the current status! This was  discussed 
>> in the mailing list for some weeks and the change was  performed some 
>> days after.
>> Can you make the changes to restore the previous state with the  steps 
>> that existed with lowercase names in the deprecated section  (and only 
>> these one lowercased)?
> 
> 
> The question still stand: how and when do we get rid of these  aliases, 
> now that they have been deprecated?

in version 2? ;-)

Perhaps could we implement a way to generate warnings when deprecated task names are used? On the other hand users are 
free to use their own taskdefs with totally different names for the tasks.

Marc.