Sean, Ya know what, I am happy with CFMX so far, even though I've had a few struggles they are mostly to do with non-standard implementations. The other issues are more often than not already addressed in tech notes and this list has been helpful.
Now If I can just get those SES urls ending with a "/" to work I could take the weekend off and enjoy the Indy (its a block form my office here in Vancouver, and loud!!) Brook At 06:13 PM 26/07/02 -0700, you wrote: >On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 04:06 , Alex Hubner wrote: > > Sorry but I have a different opinion on that. The reality shows a > > different thing, you can check it here, on MM support forums and all > > over the place. > >Yes, I realize that some people are having some problems with some >specific language features but I also hear lots of people who have nothing >to complain about who are running their old apps on CFMX without a problem. > Think about it: who is going to post on a list? The people who aren't >happy with CFMX! I don't think seeing posts from (many) happy people, >saying "Hey, it works for me!", is going to improve anyone's humor in this >area :) > >Now, I'm not saying there are *no* problems - I can see them here just >fine (and on the other lists I'm on). I'm saying that there are relatively >few problems (especially considering this is effectively a 'new' product). > > > People are not running CF5 applications 'just the > > same' under CFMX, and they are complaining about - this thread is > > about - it. > >*some* people are complaining (loudly) about a *few* problems. I don't >want to belittle the problems people are having - for those people, these >are show-stopping problems. Been there, done that. Not fun. I'm just >trying to get a little perspective on the discussion. > > > SetEncoding... Well, asfaik this function doesn't work > > with CF5 so it gives you three options: (1) your code only works for > > CF5; (2) your code only works with CFMX or (3) put something like > > that <CFIF CFVersion... EQ "5">Run this code<CFELSE>run that > > code</CFIF>... > >And when people migrated from 4.5 to 5.0 they didn't have this problem? >What about all the changes in that release? > >EVERY upgrade is going to cause *some* problems - that's the nature of >software. > >Let's look at setEncoding() - for the most part, applications that run on >CF5 today rely on the default encoding and should run without setEncoding( >) on CFMX. Now, it may be that a CF5 application was relying on 'features' > in the default encoding handling in CF5 that are now exposed by the >upgrade to CFMX and full Unicode support. Yes, that's very unfortunate but >would you rather CFMX was performance-hobbled (and / or feature-hobbled) >to reproduce that erroneous behavior? > > > i'm realy investing my time over CFMX and in a overall view I'm happy > > with it. But there are issues, you know that. > >I'm glad you're happy overall. I think you are in the majority. > >Hopefully we can all work together to create a good repository of >information where people upgrading from CF5 can go to quickly resolve >those few problems that they may encounter. > > > Sorry, I don't like flames nor ego-treks in lists but your question > > sounds pretty ironic. I'm gonna answer in case I'm wrong. > >It was a genuine question so I'm glad you're answering it... > > > I've tested two Fusebox applications that runs smoothly on CF5, I > > ...[snip]... > > talking about templates that takes, sometimes, 10-20 includes, which > > are not rare in Fusebox. Yes, I saw CFMX running faster than CF5, but > > not in this cases. > >OK, that's good to know - and unfortunate for the Fusebox community I >suspect. Out of curiosity, were you running with Trusted Cache enabled? I >also wonder how much memory was on the server - I've heard a few people >express concern about the amount of memory Java takes (although I >personally haven't experienced any problems). > >Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > >"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." >-- Margaret Atwood > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
