[Building Sakai] Removing the Neo portal, XSLT, and PDA portal from trunk / Sakai 11

[Steve Swinsburg]

+1

Can you think of any tools that will break with the removal of the PDA/XSL
portal?

cheers,
Steve

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> With the move to Morpheus as the default portal, I am thinking the time
> has come to remove some of the legacy code from /portal - while it might
> seem like a good idea to hold onto this legacy code for as long as possible
> - at this point it is purely a source of potential errors in our code base.
>
> In particular there is a lot of special case code for the PDA portal that
> really clogs up the internal structure of the code and makes it really
> difficult to trace through what is happening in the portal code.  I just
> spent about four hours tracing through code to figure out what was breaking
> in SAK-28978 and had to ignore a lot of pretty intricate PDA code to see
> what was going on.
>
> There is no plan to make PDA, Neo, or XSLT work or be supported in Sakai
> 11.  And since the removal of these elements will be a large amount of
> changes - I would really prefer to remove them early not late so that we
> don't break Sakai 11 later in the dev cycle.
>
> I think that Morpheus is working well enough at this point not to slow our
> development down.  And if we find a bug like SAK-28978 we will just fix it
> in Morpheus and move forward.
>
> Thoughts / comments?
>
> /Chuck
>
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