On 3/26/2012 9:49 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote: > On 26/03/2012 16:42, Lars Huttar wrote: >> I sent this email at the start of the weekend, so it may not have been >> seen much. >> However the NPE is blocking progress, so I'd like to see if anyone can >> help me with it. >> Anybody have ideas? > Lars, > do you have any chance to share your project somewhere (github, > gitorius...) so that it would be much easier to take a look at it?
Francesco, I can put it on the web. I'll do that and then let you know where to find it. > >> After the difficulties of the last week or two, I'm starting to wonder >> if we'd be better off going back to Cocoon 2.1.11. A colleague asked >> me, why take the risk and time to move to Cocoon 3, when we have >> Cocoon 2.1.11 working well? I gave the standard "2.1.11 is several >> years old and will be increasingly unsupported" answer, but I had to >> admit that the decision was not looking as good now as it seemed last >> summer when C3 had a recent new alpha and even a beta candidate. >> >> Please don't take this as criticism of the Cocoon developers ... I >> have been continually impressed at the readiness of the committers to >> debug problems quickly and implement fixes. However I do wonder >> whether there is just too much debugging left, to reach a stable state >> in time for our work. Also I am concerned that since there doesn't >> seem to be a roadmap for feature freeze, there may be no point at >> which bugs will settle down so that a stable release can be completed. > Cocoon 3 is alpha state, but you are working on a SNAPSHOT release of > beta-1: this means that Cocoon 3.0 does not pretend - yet - to be > officially stable. Understood. > Despite of this, I can assure that my company and at least a couple of > other companies have several production applications based on Cocoon > 3.0, so my suggestion would be "keep pushing" ;-) > Thank you for this encouragement. On what version of 3.0 do you/they run production apps? alpha-3? beta-1 SNAPSHOT? Maybe I should go back to alpha-3? (But then I lose some recent bug fixes you have made in response to my questions over the last week or two.) I do hope to be able to get C3 working for this project. But I also need to recognize that it's one thing for a developer to use C3 for production apps when that developer is personally very familiar and competent with the tools needed to fix any problems that arise in C3; it's a very different thing for *me* to do so, a Cocoon user rather than a Cocoon committer. Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org
