Lots of goodies, but we can't upgrade until we fix the bad usage of macros, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-681
On 05/01/2010 06:20 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > fyi > > -Vincent > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Nathan Bubna<[email protected]> >> Date: April 28, 2010 12:53:50 AM GMT+02:00 >> To: Velocity Developers List<[email protected]>, Velocity Users >> List<[email protected]>, [email protected] >> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Velocity Engine 1.7-beta1 release available >> >> The Velocity developers are please to announce the availability of >> Velocity Engine 1.7-beta1. >> >> Downloads can be found here: >> http://velocity.apache.org/download.cgi >> >> A great deal of work has been done since the 1.6 branch. Here's a taste: >> >> - Your macros can now be called with bodies when you want: >> #macro(foo)Here is $bodyContent#end >> #...@foo()body content!#end >> - Quotes can be escaped in strings by doubling them: >> #set( $foo = "$person said, ""$comment"" " ) >> #set( $bar = 'Joe said, ''Hi!'' ' ) >> - The flawed #literal directive has been replaced with: >> #[[ This is included but not parsed, so #if and $foo need no >> escaping.]]# >> >> Also included are namespacing improvements, better #break and #stop, >> bracketed index syntax, and more! For full details, please see the >> change log: >> http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/changes-report.html >> >> This should work as a drop-in replacement for Velocity 1.6.3 in the >> vast majority of cases. However, there have been a number of >> deprecations (should result in warnings in your log output) and a few >> minor behavioral changes, all of which are explained in the change >> log. :) -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

