Spent time working on Velocity

2014-09-25 Thread Frederick N. Brier
Dear Velocity Team Members, I was looking for a template engine that would work on Android, and had used Velocity a couple of times, years ago. The latest version is 1.7. There haven't been any code changes in 4 years, although there were some recent bug reports. Log4j has some issues on

Re: Spent time working on Velocity

2014-09-25 Thread Nathan Bubna
Hi Frederick! Thanks for posting this here. Currently, we have a 1.x branch that is stable and in a long-term maintenance mode and a 2.x branch that is not really ready for consumption yet. To be honest, it's been so long since i worked on 2.x that i can't remember what changes we did get done (i

Re: Spent time working on Velocity

2014-09-25 Thread Nathan Bubna
https://github.com/apache/velocity-engine https://github.com/apache/velocity-engine/tree/2.0_Exp Now, that said, i've not used the git mirror. The Subversion repository may still be considered the primary one by the infrastructure guys, but i assume they work together well enough. As far as

Re: Spent time working on Velocity

2014-09-25 Thread Nathan Bubna
Hmm. Yeah, i just looked through the commit history for the 2.0 branch. It has a LOT of removed deprecations, upgrades, important fixes, etc. I'd recommend that as a great starting point, if it's at all possible to merge your changes into it... I'd forgotten how far we'd gotten on that branch. I