Do we need to update our pom's or should it be code changes only ? Cheers Jono
2009/10/22 David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> > Folks, > As the title of this email indicates, there are breaking changes in Lift > that just got pushed to master. > > We've migrated from Scala Actors to Lift Actors and included a series of > traits that allow Lift to use its own Actors or Akka Actors (or anything > else that implements that interface.) > > The two big changes that you'll have to work with are: > > - Box/Full/Empty/Failure was moved from the lift-util/net.liftweb.util > package to the lift-common/net.liftweb.common package. The reason for this > change is that we're going to make the lift-common package a more generic, > non-web related package. It currently contains Box and Actor, but in the > future may contain other interfaces that will have concrete implementations > outside of Lift. We moved Box there because Box is richer than Scala's > Option class and being able to carry Exceptions around in a Box while still > being able to map/flatMap/foreach over a Box (these are unavailable for > Scala's Either). Some we're going to actively promote using Box as a > replacement for Option in all Scala apps. What this means for you is you > have to import net.liftweb.common._ in any file that you also import > net.liftweb.util.? > - Lift no longer support Scala Actors for Comet Actors. The > GenericActor API offers pretty much the same client interface to Lift's > Actors, so ! and !? work the same way. However, there's no link, self, > start or exit methods. > > Please do an "mvn -U clean install" on your code and run it against the new > code. If you have any Comet-related weirdness, please report it > immediately. We're planning M7 in 2 weeks, so we've got lots of time to > iron any kinks out of this code. > > Thanks, > > David > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Surf the harmonics > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
