[Lift] Re: Where are the dragons hiding?

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Butcher
On Nov 19, 12:37 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: But one of the key things to keep in mind regarding Lift is how we as a community handle problems.  One of the biggest, nastiest bugs in Lift-land crept into the code in the last few

[Lift] Where are the dragons hiding?

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Butcher
I'm seriously considering Lift for a new project. I know what the benefits of Scala and Lift are (that's why I'm seriously considering this as a route forwards :-) What I'm wondering is whether there are any lurking nasties that I should be aware of (so that I can avoid learning about them the

[Lift] Re: Where are the dragons hiding?

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Butcher
Thanks everyone - that's exactly the kind of information that I was looking for. Now all I need to do is persuade my colleagues that selecting a young technology (again) is a good idea ;-) Thanks again, paul.butcher-msgCount++ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[Lift] Re: Bug in Chat example?

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Butcher
of this stops me from being able to implement comet functionality (and Lift is still the best framework I've come across for this purpose, even without ask/answer). But being able to use ask/ answer would be nice :-) On Nov 21, 6:27 pm, Paul Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm gradually getting my

[Lift] Bug in Chat example?

2008-11-21 Thread Paul Butcher
So I'm gradually getting my head around lift, in particular the comet support. I'm currently trying to understand how the Chat example's AskName functionality works. I believe that I've uncovered a bug, but I'm not sure why it doesn't work or how to fix it. The Chat class's localSetup method is

[Lift] Failing to build the examples :-(

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Butcher
I'm sure that I'm missing something very basic here, but I've no idea what it is. I've downloaded the latest source and run mvn install successfully. When I try to run mvn site, however, I get the following: [WARNING] Unable to process class

[Lift] Re: Failing to build the examples :-(

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Butcher
On Nov 20, 2:00 pm, David Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you run out of memory, that's the end of a given job.  How much RAM is in your machine? As much as will physically fit (3G). Here's a slightly cut-down version of the end of the Maven output: [WARNING] Unable to process class

[Lift] Re: Failing to build the examples :-(

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Butcher
On Nov 20, 2:32 pm, David Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux (what distro and version)? Mac OS X? Mac OS X 10.5.5 (the latest version). Paul. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To

[Lift] Re: Failing to build the examples :-(

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Butcher
On Nov 20, 2:31 pm, David Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a successful build on my Linux machine with 3GB of RAM (I got the bcel format warning) Ah - so the error is the out of memory error? The format warning is just a warning that I don't need to worry about? Sorry - I had

[Lift] Confuddled by CometActor

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Butcher
Disclaimer - I'm a complete Lift newbie, so please forgive any glaring oversights. I've been playing around with Lift, and in particular CometActor. Before trying to write my own, I thought that I'd get the example Clock actor working. So I created a blank archetype with: mvn archetype:create

[Lift] Re: Confuddled by CometActor

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Butcher
On Nov 17, 4:28 pm, TylerWeir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The signature of CometActor changed from 0.9 to 0.10. Thanks Tyler. I thought that it might be something like that, but when I checked the latest version of the examples in Git, they were still using the old style, so I discounted that

[Lift] Re: Confuddled by CometActor

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Butcher
On Nov 17, 4:41 pm, David Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maven doesn't pull automatically 0.10-SNAPSHOT if you create a project with 0.9. Did you change the version of lift into your pom.xml ? Nope - haven't touched pom.xml. Here's the (I think!) relevant section: dependency