Niall Pemberton wrote:
On 4/18/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would venture to guess, just as an outside observer, that if the
author of Strecks is not given commit access to Struts itself, then he
may run into limitations in the Struts codebase and end up making
modifications to support things that Strecks needs, and end up with a
forked version of the Struts 1.x code.
I would hope not.
Of course, logically, if this guy is interested in developing further on
top of Struts 1.x, and existing Struts committers aren't, he probably
should be let in and Strecks might as well become Struts 1.3.x. or
Struts 1.4.x and so on.
Strecks requires JDK 1.5 and I don't believe we're ready to make this
a minimum requirement for Struts at this point in time. So at the
moment I don't believe it could be anything other than an optional add
on. If it was a separate Struts sub-module then obviously it would
have more credibility - but starting out as a sourceforge project
seems like a good plan IMO.
Yes I agree
Phil may correct me if I've got this wrong, but I believe it was his
aim to provide this functionality to existing Struts 1.2.x users and
has developed it based on the 1.2.x code, rather than 1.3.x. In fact I
believe it would have been easier to develop it for 1.3 - but that
wasn't his aim. If there are things we could change to make
integrating Strecks easier then Phil is welcome to submit patches
through bugzilla. We would prefer them for the current code base
(1.3.x) - although theres no reason why 1.2.x changes can't be
requested, except there may be no appetite for further 1.2.x releases.
Niall, thanks for pointing this out. I went for 1.2.x because it is out
there. I don't plan to submit any patches for 1.2 at this point, though.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I expect 1.3 will be backward compatible to
1.2, and if so, Strecks could still be used as is with 1.3.
There are certain features which may be easier to accomodate through
1.3, especially if there is still an option to submit patches at a
relatively early stage in its release cycle. I still need to look into
all of this though.
If there is interest in changing Struts to accomodate Strecks, then it
would be more appropriate to continue discussion on the dev list
though.
Niall
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