In testing the migration from 0.6.5 to 0.7(pre), I had two failures, and some problems for which I provide suggestions/requests...
Failures (both previously reported): 1. An abstract class that has a singleton pattern for testing was previously able to be used as an abstract class, but the migration converts it to a singleton which can not be extended as an abstract class. 2. A class defined with no superclass is properly migrated, but at runtime the new Clazz structure is overwritten because of incorrect copying of the qx.OO class definition from input to output. Generally, the migration went well. I did find, though, that it restructured the code *style* which I found quite annoying. I don't think that there is any reason that if I nicely structure an array or object, or put my braces at the beginning of the "next" line, that the migration should move things around and "unstructure" or "restructure" it. Braces movement seems most prevalent with the construct method, but I saw it elsewhere as well -- particularly with my nicely indented structured arrays and objects. The style generated by the migration is, like in traditional qooxdoo source, mixed, not consistent. It took me a couple of hours to fix up the code style again, and that was on only a few of days worth of development. I expect that those with large projects needing migration will find themselves with quite a bit of manual labor ahead of them if they care about maintaining a consistent code style, or one that doesn't exactly match what the migration is creating. Since the migration appears to be "rewriting" much of the code, I suggest that there be a flag (or set of flags, similar to what the "indent" program provides) to allow the migration to maintain a consistent style agreeable to the developer. If nothing else, then a "braces at end of line" vs "braces at beginning of next line" option would be quite helpful, and arrays and objects should not be restructured. Cheers, Derrell ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
