Doh....apologies.... in the middle of a code crisis...scanned his
email...during a 10 second break :)
> ----------
> From: Heath Lord[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 27 September 2000 14:39
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input
>
> Actually, he was right...
>
> > > I can't promise anything, but this release is for you, and I want to
> > make
> > > sure you're heard. Please either post to the list or send email
> > > directly to
> > > me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and reference your Allaire Issue/Bug #
> > > if you have
> > > one.
>
> But, read his email anyway.
>
> Heath
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reynolds, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:27 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input
>
>
> Sorry to be a bit of a bore, but read his email. You should email him
> directly.
>
> > ----------
> > From: Steve Martin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 27 September 2000 14:22
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Cc: Phil
> > Subject: RE: TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input
> >
> > Damon,
> > I haven't seen this raised as an issue elsewhere so I'll mention it to
> > you.
> > It isn't so much something that is broken than a change in behaviour
> > between
> > 4.01 and 4.5 which had the effect of breaking some of our code which
> > relied
> > on the 4.01 behaviour. Note also that this change in behaviour wasn't
> > mentioned in the release notes for 4.5
> > The problem:
> >
> > You may be aware that when calling custom tags, either using the "CF_"
> > syntax, or using "CFMODULE", you can pass a special attribute called
> > "ATTRIBUTECOLLECTION", which is a struct of attributes. We use it quite
> a
> > lot when using optional parameters, as it allows a collection of
> > parameters
> > to be created, and then sent "en masse" to a module, e.g.
> >
> > <cfset MyAttributeStruct=StructNew()>
> > <cfif NeedToPassX>
> > <cfset MyAttributeStruct.X="Hello">
> > </cfif>
> > <cfif NeedToPassY>
> > <cfset MyAttributeStruct.Y="World">
> > </cfif>
> >
> > <!--- and so on --->
> >
> > <cf_SomeTag attributecollection=#MyAttributeStruct#>
> >
> >
> > In practice, you can mix and match "attributecollection" and standard
> > parameters, e.g.
> > <cf_SomeTag attributecollection=#MyAttributeStruct# Z="!">
> >
> > which is entirely equivalent to, say,
> > <cf_SomeTag X="Hello" Y="World" Z="!">
> >
> > The change has come in how repeated variables are treated, e.g.
> > <cf_SomeTag attributecollection=#MyAttributeStruct# X="Goodbye">
> >
> > Here X is specified twice, once in the attributecollection, once as a
> > normal
> > parameter.
> >
> > The problem (for me at least, moving code from 4.01 to 4.5) is that in
> > 4.01
> > the "normal" parameter has precedence, whereas in 4.5 the "struct"
> > parameter
> > has precedence, resulting in:
> >
> > 4.01 <cf_SomeTag X="Goodbye" Y="World">
> > 4.5 <cf_SomeTag X="Hello" Y="World">
> >
> > Was there a reason for the initial change and if so, why was it done and
> > why
> > wasn't it documented? If not, can we have the original behaviour back
> > please? :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve Martin
> > Allaire Certified Instructor
> >
> > (initially spotted by P.Murphy [ACI] )
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Damon Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 13:51
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input
> > >
> > >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > ColdFusion Service Pack 2 is under construction, and I'd like to get
> > your
> > > feedback on what you believe to be Must-Be-Fixed items.
> > >
> > > While Service Pack 1 focused heavily on stability and performance
> issues
> > > (across platform and Unix-specific), we'd like to nail as many serious
> > > feature and tag bugs as possible, although the release cycle will be
> > > significantly shorter (shooting for an early November release).
> > >
> > > Currently, here's a summary of bug fixes slated for SP2:
> > >
> > > 18965 Native Oracle CLOB support
> > > 18389 Security/Solaris Cfexec restart of Security
> > Proxy
> > > 17873 Informix 2.3 & 2.5 client lib support
> > > 15776 CFMAIL recipients truncated at 246
> > characters
> > > 18191,18237,18314 CFHTTP Post failure (but redirects must still be an
> > > absolute url)
> > > 18338, 17121 LSNumberFormat and NumberFormat problems
> > > 16663 MIME attached over regular WAP gateway
> > (UTF-8).
> > > 19010 CFFILE/move problem on Unix file systems
> > > 17601 COM Threading Model Changes
> > > 18311 CFHTTP 'Connection Failure' error if the
> > status code
> > > is 204
> > > 18246 CFPOP unknown exception condition
> > > 18811 POP3 enhancement
> > > 18058, 16875 Applet interface in CFAdmin problems with
> > parm
> > > fields
> > > 18607 MSAccess bug hangs CF on Win2k/SP1
> > > 18579 Secuirty Administration Bug - cfm file
> > change
> > > 17543 Locale Date Support - Solaris
> > > 10115 European dates broken in Solaris CF 4.5+
> > > 19003 CFFTP connection bug
> > > 12523 Unix, LSParseDateTime only functions for US
> > english.
> > > 18991 CFHTTP on Linux crash with >4k content
> > > 18234, 17792 MS SQLServer problems on Linux
> > > 18778 Scheduled tasks don't run with CFREGISTRY
> > disabled
> > >
> > > I can't promise anything, but this release is for you, and I want to
> > make
> > > sure you're heard. Please either post to the list or send email
> > > directly to
> > > me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and reference your Allaire Issue/Bug #
> > > if you have
> > > one.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Damon Cooper
> > > ColdFusion Release Manager
> > > Allaire
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