On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Martin Cooper wrote:
> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:49:19 -0800 (PST) > From: Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: > jakarta-struts/src/share/org/apache/struts/config ConfigRuleSet.java > > > > On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > > > > > On 21 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Update to avoid the use of deprecated Digester methods. Some deprecated > > > methods are still used, but their replacements are not yet available in > > > a released version of Digester. We don't want to depend on a new Digester > > > release just for this, so leave them for now. > > > > Actually, our general rule has been that a final release of Struts 1.1 > > *must* depend on updated final releases of the commons components. There > > are other dependencies already on things that have been fixed in the > > nightly commons builds; we should assume that in cases like this. > > Yes, I realise that we need to depend on appropriate final releases of > Commons components in 1.1 Final. What I didn't want to do was *require* a > new release of Digester for Struts *only* to fix deprecation warnings. I > don't track Digester as closely as I used to, so I don't know if there is > anything else post-1.3 that is needed for Struts. > There are some Digester bugfixes that we want. There's *lots* of stuff in beanutils that we need. > > In the particular case of beanutils and digester, there is movement > > towards releases in the short term -- which is why I've been focused on > > the outstanding bugs there as well as in Struts itself. > > Then perhaps we should go ahead and fix the remaining deprecation warnings > from Digester sooner rather than later? > Yep. > > RELEASE MANAGER NOTE - you'll find that I tagged the Commons trees with a > > CVS version tag for the betas, so that one can reliably determine which > > commons code was included. I suggest we do the same for b3. > > I did this for b2, and plan to do the same for b3. I also intend to remove > commons-services in b3, but leave the source in contrib. > > Talking of b3, I'm still waiting for feedback from the committers before I > post a revised release plan... > I've got a Christmas present shopping trip yet to do today (just-in-time design pattern :-), but otherwise plan to spend some time this weekend on assessing where we are and cleaning up what I can. But, in general, a good beta3 release would be a nice Christmas present to give the rest of the world. > -- > Martin Cooper Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
