delegation in IDP3

[Cantor, Scott]

> Brent's message from a while back that I cited earlier explicitly
> mentioned looking at the schema (in the absence of documentation)
> to figure out how to do this in a legacy file, so I inferred that
> the intent, at least, was to support this in a legacy configuration.

I'm pretty much lost so am going to shut up and basically say I have no idea. I filed a bug and if it's not a bug, they'll close it. The code doesn't look like I think it would have to, but there are comments in it that make me think I no longer understand it like I thought I did, so I'm not going to try until Rod or Brent have a chance to weigh in on it.

The bottom line is that it doesn't make any sense to me to support a legacy syntax that isn't actually the legacy syntax you would already be using. And it doesn't support that one, for sure, so whatever you have to change it to, no idea...

I personally would just update to the Spring format. That's the only legacy file that really doesn't need to be left alone when you upgrade. There are so many immediate benefits and stuff that doesn't even work until you update to it that it isn't really worth it. And it's not really that big a change in most cases.

-- Scott