> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:48 PM
> To: Velocity Developers List
> Subject: Re: Running total (more on: Is there a need for 
> further development)
> 
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> On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 09:02 PM, Daniel Rall wrote:
> 
> > "pero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> That's the reason I wrote the Number-Handling-Patch and 
> even improved 
> >> it (or better fixed it since I forgot something :).
> >
> > Is this in an issue somewhere?  If not please make it so.  
> Can you set 
> > the milestone to 1.4?  Geir, was this approved for inclusion?  What 
> > further revision does it need?
> 
> Not for 1.4, as it has the chance of breaking lots of stuff.  
> There's a 
> good suggestion on how to avoid it, but there's no reason to 
> do in 1.4 
> - I see 1.4 as the catchup release to get the stuff that's been done 
> since 1.3 out, and new stuff - Number changes, Map support - as new...
> 
> Yes?

Sounds reasonable. But I really don't like the proposed notation (5 = Integer
5. = Double and so on) since it is quite strange for "normal" template designer
and it does not solve all the problems we'd have with number support. 

Would it make sence to declare the release 1.5 (or perhaps 2.0?) as "The next
version of velocity"? This would give us the chance to fix and refactor some
things. So the whitespace-handling could be more predictable (differences between
## and #* *# and stuff) and we can introduce escaping (full support not only
quotes), filters, map-support, decimal-support and so on. The 1.something-branch 
will live on for hot bugfixes and security issues. A bit more work on the 
support-side (no question!), but this would give us the opportunity to make 
velocity "nearly perfect".

My $0.02

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