What to expect from Doctrine 1
What to expect from Doctrine 1
Posted about 1 year ago by jwage
As you all can obviously see, our focus around here these days has been on Doctrine 2. While overall this is a great thing, we still have a stable Doctrine 1.2 version to maintain. This blog post will give you a little information about Doctrine 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.
Doctrine 1.0 and 1.1 End of Life
You may not have noticed, but the end of life for Doctrine 1.0 and 1.1 has come and gone earlier in the year. As of right now we will not be committing anymore bug fixes to these branches. All development resources will now focus on finishing Doctrine 2 and maintaining 1.2.
Doctrine 1.2 Maintenance Releases
Since Doctrine 1.2 is the last stable version to be released for the Doctrine 1 series, we decided to open up the development a little bit for the maintenance releases. Previously we were very strict with only allowing bug fixes, but we will now allow a little more flexibility to the types of things we commit to these releases. They can now contain small enhancements and improvements as long as they do not break backwards compatibility. Of course when adding things we cannot always be 100% sure that something is BC, so we will announce each 1.2.x release one week prior to it's packaging and deployment in order to give people time to test things in SVN.
The reasoning behind this move is because we want to still improve the small usability issues of the Doctrine 1 series without having to commit to entirely new major versions. This way we are not leaving the Doctrine 1 code behind while we're focusing on the Doctrine 2 version. We hope that you all are okay with this move. If you have any issues please let us know!
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EOL for Doctrine 1.2 Posted by Christof about about 1 year ago.
Is there any EOL defined or guessable for Doctrine 1.2 ?
My guess would be two years from now.
It is a bit annoying that I can throw away most of my project code when we are living in the not to distance Doctrine2/Symfony2 future.
re: Christof Posted by jwage about about 1 year ago.
You can see the EOL dates on the Download page: http://www.doctrine-project.org/download
1.2 is currently set to die on 2011-06-01
re: jwage Posted by Christof about about 1 year ago.
Ouch :-) I should have know that.
I better not start any Doctrine 1.2 / Symfony 1.4 projects then.
The Symfony site mention support for 1.4 until November 2012, which seems strange with support for the bundled Doctrine ending 17 months earlier.
re: Christof Posted by jwage about about 1 year ago.
That is a good point, I think it means we will likely have to extend the 1.2 support then :)
Doctrine 1 and 2 Side by side Posted by vadik56 about about 1 year ago.
Will there be an upgrade guide/script from Doctrine1 to Doctrine2 ? Or maybe it will be possible to run them side by side and eventually migrate all the code to Doctrine2 ?
Were any other options considered?
tnx
re: vadik56 Posted by jwage about about 1 year ago.
No, it is not possible to have an upgrade script. You could run them side by side, but model/entity class names would need to be prefixed to avoid conflicts.