7 messages in org.apache.struts.devRE: committers attention - just a few...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Arron Bates | Feb 25, 2003 3:02 pm | |
| Karr, David | Feb 25, 2003 3:06 pm | |
| Craig R. McClanahan | Feb 25, 2003 3:25 pm | |
| David Graham | Feb 25, 2003 3:32 pm | |
| Arron Bates | Feb 25, 2003 3:41 pm | |
| David Morris | Feb 25, 2003 9:47 pm | |
| Ted Husted | Feb 26, 2003 5:25 am |
| Subject: | RE: committers attention - just a few moments... | |
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| From: | Craig R. McClanahan (crai...@apache.org) | |
| Date: | Feb 25, 2003 3:25:26 pm | |
| List: | org.apache.struts.dev | |
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Karr, David wrote:
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:06:52 -0800 From: "Karr, David" <Davi...@wamu.net> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <stru...@jakarta.apache.org> To: Struts Developers List <stru...@jakarta.apache.org> Subject: RE: committers attention - just a few moments...
Failing responses from people who are actually familiar with the nested tags and your changes, then I think you'll just have to use your own judgment. I had to make a similar decision recently wrt the Struts-EL tags. Test your changes as much as possible, and try to get some feedback from people who are using your tags. If you think it's safe to commit, then do it (but don't quote me on that :) ).
I think David articulates a rational approach. If you think the fix for nested tags should go in (in spite of being a larger patch than we might be normally comfortable with), and you've tested it as much as you can, I'm certainly not going to argue. Worst case - we do an RC2 with this fix to give the world one more shot at proving it's still got a problem.
Craig
-----Original Message----- From: Arron Bates [mailto:stru...@keyboardmonkey.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:03 PM To: stru...@jakarta.apache.org Subject: committers attention - just a few moments...
Peoples,
I'm waiting on a call in the post below about the nested tags. I know they're not everyone's favorite component, but I do need committer attention to form the game plan as it's not the typical "bug fix".
It's hard to form a consensus opinion on the one response I have.
Copied below for convenience.
Arron.
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Defenders of the faith,
Just a small one to say the problem of of not being able to run the nested tag apps in Tomcat 4.1.18's funky Jasper engine has been tackled.
I'd commit it, but the codebase being under release conditions, and for the fact that it's no simple few line "bug fix". The internals have changed to leverage the request object more completely (was originally just used to enable the recursive JSP markup). The NestedPropertyHelper has been gutted and mostly re-implemented, and all the nested tags have been touched to accomodate the change. Instead of walking the tag hierarchy, all the child tags now pick up on the nested reference within the request object directly. The property handling is now more pessimistic, and resets everything it touches. All effort was made to respect all the minor changes the tags have undergone in fixing past bugs.
The fact that most of it has changed means that I don't want it in this release, but the fact that it allows people to deploy in the latest tomcat release is important, something blocking an upgrade path for a lot of people.
What about, once the release is out, then the update to the tags committed, and release a bug-fix release for the new nested tags (1.1.1)?... kind of like 1.0.2 was to 1.0.1?...
Too unstable for 1.1 so close to release, but too important to let it slip for over a year for it to come out.
Needless to say it works on my apps :), but I'm asking the nested tags user base to jump onto it and give it a test run to see if it works for them. For those nesters looking on, there's a jar at...
http://www.keyboardmonkey.com/downloads/km-nested-v2.jar
...just throw it into the WEB-INF/lib directory, your classloader should pick them up before struts.jar. If not, delete the tags from struts.jar and give it another bash.
Anyways, just thought I'd put it forward.
Arron.