Annotations have definitely not been added to anything other than the
annotation optional jar + demo application.

As for context/template/etc lookup paths and such, I haven't changed
anything in there so you should be a-ok in theory.

I'm not against a 4.0.3 release, just wondering what the ramifications are
in terms of website content/etc. I had planned on releasing 4.1 using
maven2, as well as doing a lot of ducmentation updates to reflect all of the
changes . (and cleanup some old items)

Should we be releasing the site like tomcat does as well? (Ie a link to each
release # with its own set of docs)

On 6/4/06, Geoff Longman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

DTD changes are fine and expected as are removed deprecations.
Annotations are not an issue really as using them in a core Library
shipped with 4.1 would make 4.1 compatible with JDK1.5 only.

Things that are annoying in general and a killer in the core Libraries
(this is thankfully a short list):

1) The metas for looking up page and component classes are not recognized.

2) Specless pages and components are not supported, except in one case
- Specless pages in the T3 sense are supported.

3) Pages/Components declared or referenced with path like names are
ignored as far as the role they play in T4 w/respect to locating
classes and specs. It's not an error but Spindle won't find the page
or component spec/class if it's not also locatable by explicit
declaration or by the old T3 "lookup rules" which are a subset of the
4.0 rules.

In the wild it means that users that use these features will see odd
warnings and weird behviour in some cases. In most cases a handy
problem marker will be the clue to the fix. User beware. Not possible
to add a marker to a binary file in a jar so the core Libraries that
ship with Spindle 4T4 need to be 'clean'. This means a little more
work for us committers but I think it has a definite advantage - the
core stuff is easier to read and figure out (no magic).

Who knows, maybe having stricter core Libraries would result in a
teeeny weeny perfomance boost as I'm not convinced that a lot of this
magic stuff isn't costly.


These magic things are convenience items for end users IMO and
Framework has, so far, gotten along fine without them. Contrib is 98%
there too. In fact there is only one component in contrib that is
problematic, DumpObject. The fix for this is what 4.0.3 would contain
in addition to the any other bug fixes that have been backported.

Geoff

On 6/4/06, Jesse Kuhnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah 4.1 should just be 4.0 ++, hopefully with ++ meaning very backwards
> compatible.
>
> I have removed (not all) a good portion of interfaces/etc that were
marked
> for removal in 4.1 though.
>
> It's impossible for me to guess whether things will still work or not
but
> you can always give it a try and see? I've been using 4.1 in eclipse for
so
> long now my views on how easy it is are probably invalid since my setup
> supports everything it wants already ;) I should note that I've been
using
> eclipse 3.2 almost exclusively, but everything is mostly easy so far.
>
> I'm not sure I follow you in regard to compatibility with 4.0 or others
but
> most of the new functionality is optionally used . There will have to be
a
> new .page/.jwc dtd and .script dtd published to handle the additional
> changes. (Or modified? Not sure what the versioning path should be on
dtds)
>
>
> On 6/4/06, Geoff Longman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thing is I have not even started looking at 4.1 yet and to do so now
> > would be a step backward for me.  Correct me if I'm wrong but 4.1 is
> > 4.0 plus extra goodness right?
> >
> > (I suspect the render story is different in 4.1 but that doesn't
matter to
> > me)
> >
> > I need to get the 4.0 stuff out the door so that the basic
> > functionality can be proven. Can't do that until there is a Contrib
> > that Spindle 4T4 can process.  Thus, 4.0.3 is not optional for me.
> > After that, and added annotation support, I can modify to add extra
> > 4.1 goodness.
> >
> > Although, if 4.1 mandates the use of some T4 "features" that Spindle
> > 4T4 can't handle , in a Library *shipped* wth 4.1, then point is moot
> > because I won't be porting anyways. In this case support will be for
> > 4.0 only until 5.0 comes out.
> >
> > BTW how much jumping around and tweaking is needed to compile 4.1 in
> > Eclipse out of the (svn) box? The build story for 4.0 is a pain in the
> > ass.
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> >
> > On 6/4/06, Jesse Kuhnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > There is a 4.0 branch, but the current tapestry4 trunk has all of
the
> > > 4.1changes in it.
> > >
> > > I think it is preferrable to not release anymore 4.0 series versions
if
> > we
> > > can get away with it, but if it ~has~ to be done can you make sure
the
> > > changes get into trunk as well?
> > >
> > > On 6/4/06, Geoff Longman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Where is 4.0.3 in the repo? I've finally narrowsed down the parts
of
> > > > Contrib that need to be tweaked to be passed through the new
Spindle
> > > > 4T4 core without error.
> > > >
> > > > BTW is looks like only 3 changes.
> > > >
> > > > Geoff
> > > >
> > > > --
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